I have my agenda too

I can promise you

You'll not read any

Poems by me

With pretty flowers

Or rainbow and unicorns

Of beautiful sunrises

Of beautiful sunsets

(Since both are optical

Illusions caused by the

Rotation of the Earth 

On its axis and that's 

Not very poetic)

If you want that kind 

Of poetical writing

I hear Rod McKuen 

Is still alive and kicking

I just write the truth 

And a little humor on the way

Very very little little humor

I even may wax philosophic

Once the opioids have kicked in

But I see very little beauty

I was loved by someone once

But she died and so did beauty

Looking back however I do that

I've found marriage is interesting

And the sex is usually better 

And the competition is less

Less thoughts of cheating

(Never does go away for either of you)

No I'll give it to you unvarnished

Without prevarication

Using all the  $.50 words

Wherever possible and often

It helps your vocabulary

Art should be truth 

"in vino veritas"... No that's not it

"in arte non est verum"

I think the first quote was better

I rather be drunk than alone

Sorry, AA and Bill and all your friends

So go peddle your newspapers 

You'll never find the truth there or 

On TV or the Radio (AM/FM/Satellite) 

And definitely not on or in the interwebs

You'll have to find truth on your own 

Sorry no short cuts

But that's what I'm here for

I'm here for all of you folks

Grooping in the dark

Because you popped a breaker

Or broke a popper

Maybe you see

I have my agenda too.