Unwanted Poems

Shyly he asked you if he could write you

         poems

Can't remember her reply

I said Nothing is worse than unwanted poems

In the Navy you may be prosecuted for

Unwanted poems or rather sending

Or speaking through unwanted poems

Poor poetry! I always wanted to write

That poem entitled Unwanted Poems

Maybe I've gone and done that as the unwanted poet put it

But look at the snow as gift: hated by commuters

snow is finally loved and compared to poetry

there's an economy to snow-hatred

Finally, snow lightens worlds like (your) teeth

in your smile as you accept my perhaps necessary poems

Copyright ©: David Shapiro

(in: In Memory of an Angel, 2017, p. 79)