Just one!
I begged the Muse.
You again?
Always the same
schtick.
If you want the line,
you’ll have to earn it.
How?
Write about something
besides younger men,
Muse said.
Think of Elizabeth Bishop,
who spent twenty years
on “The Moose.”
No! I won’t!
Too late. I was already
minding my
mousse
au
chocolat.
Copyright © 2020 by Marilyn Kallet. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 10, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets.