why it had to be
this way
and not as you’d have liked
that way
this way or that way
doesn’t matter
or maybe it does
you try to figure it out
like you figure which shirt
to wear
for the dinner party
and some of us hide it in the mind
like the moon
hides behind the clouds
and shows up when you least expected
they say much about his poems
and he’s T.S. Eliot
the initials reprimand his full name
so why then it’s not W. Shakespeare
instead of William Shakespeare
or E. Dickinson for Emily Dickinson
or G. Chaucer for Geoffrey Chaucer
somehow the rendition is lackluster
if we say his name is Thomas Stearn Eliot
so we exude delight saying his name
is T.S. Eliot
I like the full name better
than initials.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem