A length of poetry was assigned
twenty pages give or take
I thought of how best to respond
now you're reading my mistake
Reginald Shepherd we read in class
and for him I've no more words
and of the few I didn't understand
the authors feelings I looked for
Three Japanese poems were
among those I liked the best
perhaps, interestingly enough,
they were clearer then the rest
Shakespeare and Ted Berrigan
I found unbearable
Dickinson and Mullen
were much more palatable
Langston Hughes I found I have
begun to appreciate and what's more
consideration has been given to
reading his work outside the classroom's door
Prose above verse has always been
my general inclination
this exercise perhaps shows why
for my verse is pedestrian
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