Here's a Poem Poem by Jack Grapes

Here's a poem that has not

been revised or rewritten

or read aloud or cut

or extended or given to a lover.

Here's a poem that

has no code word, no

name for something else,

no intended meaning,

no axe to grind.

Here's a poem inconsequential

as a thumbtack.

Give me a penny for it

and you've overpaid.

Lose it and it's still there

for all it was worth.

Here's a poem less than

twenty lines.

Defend it.