Another poem to hack out, A flood instead of the usual drought, This month I dare not slack, Even if inspiration I lack, The daily schedule to survive? Shall I knock out a three line haiku? Would you, catch a fleeting quatrain, Or take five, to ameliorate the strain? I'm now at six, next hardly seventh heaven Lord knows how I'll make eleven Twelve, thirteen, tarnation on it Fourteen suggests a sonnet? Fifteen? Oh "dead man's chest" and that many pirates upon it Already losing reason stroke rhyme What may poetry month evoke in time? I own this day's diatribe seems shirty TGIA which hath only thirty.