For my students today

A Poet Takes His Ease

Last week I shared with you a half dozen poems

Written by me, myself or I

All alone, individually

Personal creations each one was

And most of them, auto-biographical also

Not this week, though!

I’ll try to get by with only a couple bits of posey

(Not more than that)

And each written by someone else, too

And why not?

Even Shakespeare I bet

Sometimes needed to pause 

Perhaps Rabbie Burns took time off

For the occasional round of golf

Kerouac smoked weed and

Li Po got drunk

There! I rest my case