Irish poem #6 

the famous writer's son

himself a so-so writer

said to us

over lamb and parsnips 

poetry is lazy

just farting around

prose makes words work 

I didn't remind him

that each word in a poem

has to do heavy lifting

2023 Jacqueline Jackson

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