They Don't Have to
January 4, 1995
Some may say
they do, but poems
don't have to have
``content'' to be poems.
Poems can be nothing but
whipped cream with a
bright red cherry on
top, if they want to. Or
poems can be three-legged
pink tables with grapes
and watermelon slices
and an appaloosa horse and
dominoes and a wilting rose
bush in a svelte blue vase
on top. But they
don't have to, of course.