Your E-Verse Poem by Michael Burch

I cannot understand a word you've said
(and this despite an adequate I.Q.):
it must be some exotic new haiku
combined with Latin suddenly undead.

It must be hieroglyphics mixed with Greek.
Have Pound and T. S. Eliot been cloned?
Perhaps you wrote it on the pot, so stoned
you spelled it backwards, just to be oblique.

I think you're very funny—so, "Yuk! Yuk! "
I know you must be kidding; didn't we
write crap like this and call it "poetry, "
a form of verbal exercise, P.E.,
in kindergarten, when we ran "amuck? "

Oh, sorry, I forgot to "make it new."
Perhaps I still can learn a thing or two
from someone more original, like you.