The Poetry Thing

                                          The Poetry Thing
My creative spirit bubbles and sparks
out of me as  poetry.
It showed up, unbidden,
one warm summer day,
and just will not  leave me alone!
Not that I want it to--I use
this poetry thing to  poke great fun at myself. I write
what I want to laugh at,and then
make anyone and everyone
read it. It's good that I don't
just stop at my friends, though--
soon I will have
run them all off and will be
at the astonished
mercy of strangers, who just
read and smile to be polite,
and then who themselves run
off in the opposite direction
from my poetic pathl 
I'd better meet
a bunch of folks
every day
if I want to keep
this laughter going!