by Madlando Aver

Created on: January 22, 2009

One poem that may mean something or nothing and one poem about writing poems that makes fun of that one and most others.
Then
A car, three bedrooms, two baths and a kitchen.
A table, four chairs, a TV and some mittens
A couch, a coat, shoes, and a stereo,
A cell phone, computer, and a masturbating lothario.
Is this it then?
Four walls, a roof, and we'll call it a shelter

Two buns, a patty; is it food or is it felching?
Beans, Queens, greens, and reds
Capitalism, Communism, it's time for bed.
Is this it then?
Seventy-two years, a few more or less
Depending on whether a man, woman, or mess
Some offspring and even some offspring of offspring
Make history, a legacy of perennial talking.
It strikes me that this might be it, then.

How?
How do you write a poem?
How do you rhyme?
Do you just throw out words such as "dime"
And hope that it means something to someone in time?
Make it so vague that room for interpretation
Could be redefined as a Grand Canyon vacation?
How do you rhyme?
How do you write a poem?
Do you repeat lines from the beginning halfway through and at end,
In hopes that the emphasis will make Newton's apple descend?
If stereo is the word and you've just talked of fish
Can aquarium be made to fit the procrustean bed
And be said as "aquario" in aquarium's stead?
Lothario might work as well I suppose, and such a man would no doubt have a
stereo of notelike Bose.
Is this a poem? Is this how it's done?
How do you rhyme when you've stared at the sun?
How do you write a poem?

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