Now I write poems

Hmm. Here is where the poems went.

I wrote poems

In college.

Joe wrote poems, too.

When I graduated,

I had other things

To do.

I married.

I went to seminary,

Preached sermons.

Joe said

Where

Did the poems go?

I said

They are sermons

Now,

They are all

Sermons.

Joe said

That’s no excuse,

That’s absolutely

No excuse.

So now

I can’t preach.

The lights

Make me dizzy.

I have difficulty

Walking up

To the pulpit.

So now

I write poems.

I have lost track

Of Joe.

I would like to say

See, Joe,

See?

I hear him saying

Well

It’s about time.