A Conversation With the Muse

By

Stephen M. Larson

The Muse

smacked me upside the head

     And said,

     "Write a poem".

I said,

     "You must be joking.

     I'm no poet."

She said,

     "Did I

ask if you were a poet?

     Write

a freakin' poem!"

I said,

     "Okay.

About what?"

She said,

     "That's

your problem."

I said,

     "Okay.

     What form?"

She said,

     "That's

your problem, too.

     Write!"

So I wrote

a poem about the Muse

asking me to write a poem.

And I showed it

to her.

"Cop out!" she

snarled, and

vanished.

The Muse

is

one

mean

bitch!

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Copyright ©2001 by Stephen M. Larson