Most of my poems

are low on air

they carry little weight

and often are under-inflated

I wish I could be serious

and write a serious poem

but seriously all my poems

have a tendency to go flat

they are worn out and bald

and ready for the salvage yard

I hope you can limp into a poem station

and pump up this poem

before it leaves you literally stranded

in the meantime this poem will have to do

a spare poem in your trunk of poems

it is not full size

and has a slow leak

but will get you by

until you get a better poem

to ride on.