No matter how meaningless
Or redundant in a literary sense,
These first lines are the spurs,
I say, because I need the words
To spring my horse into giddy.
Now, that being done, the city
Inspires with neon streetlights,
With zombie flow of the night.
My poetry absolutely is a plight
That starts from nowhere, woe,
And flees to dread, black moans.
My sallow mind trying rhymes
In hopes, if not only to be busy,
Then to make this poem pretty.