No Poem Today

(read Hafez instead)

Reclining in a tub full of no poem today, guzzling wine ensures this fool of
no poem today

My verses barely scratch the surface, except when I intend to pull off
no poem today

Well versed in the other masters, at your feet I drag up a stool of
no poem today

Better soak in the senseless bustle of bees, or drunken doves who coo of
no poem today

Even aspiring artists admit there’s no coming up to the cool of
no poem today

Face it, there’s really no point resisting the rule of
no poem today

Watch the cat trap a patch of sunlight and coil its tail around a pool of
no poem today

Jim, you must submit to the school of no poem today.

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