"Poet"   by John Clapp    		10/29/2009



I once knew a poet

	I asked for emotion
He wouldn't show it
	I asked for some rhyme
He said, "no way!"
	I asked for some paper
He said, "O.K."
	I asked for a pencil
He gave me a pen
	I told him to write
He said, "tell me when"
	I said, "make a poem with many words, maybe rhymes."
He looked up at the ceiling
	I plead many times
Reluctantly he said "O.K."
	He began to write
He didn't stop for days
	He stayed up every night
He wrote so much his brain seized up
	He didn't want to show it
I happily said, "thank you"

	I once knew a poet