two poems i found today and liked for various reasons.

[wiredjazz]

GIFT by Leonard Cohen

you tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
i bought you silence
(for i know silence)
you would say
this is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me

Untitled (As far as i know) by Roger McGough

ONCE I LIVED IN CAPITALS
MY LIFE INTENSELY PHALLIC

but now i'm sadly lowercase
with the occasional italic