Missing the Farmhouse by a
Your poem is what mine is not
Your poem’s good and mine’s a clot.
Your poem stops, no farmhouse near
My poem stops to take a leak.
Your poem holds up the mirror
That my poem broke.
Your poem’s cooked in an old English oven.
My poem’s a fish taco under a heat lamp.
Your words are drawn from a bottomless well.
My poem reaches for a beat-up Webster’s, underneath a towel and some other
crap, and that’s on a good day.
Your poem makes people wish they were smarter.
My poem makes people wish I was smarter.
Your poem waits in a lovely time capsule.
My poem rots in a medicine cabinet,
With cotton and gauze that saw through the war
And droppings and hairs and that aspirin racket.