Robin Amy Bass

THE POETS CLUB

I would not join a club that would have me as a member
Did I join the Poets Club? I just cannot remember.
Maybe I was not invited – just an over sight.
Where will all my critics be… when I start to write

things they do not want to read… things that sound too smug?
Where to find my accolades or a cyber hug?
Where to vent my attitudes and my own opinions
once I was invisible… now I have a minyan

First it was the IWVPA… then the inner club
I thought as I typed away, I was in the hub
Now I hear that there’s this club, it is just for poets.
What about the commoners… the poets who don’t know it.

Since I cannot join the club if you say come in
Please hold back – let no invite start with Dear Robin
I guess I could join a club that would say STAY OUT

We write about religion here – sometimes we even shout
No caustic voice is turned away – no sour pompous lout
we argue most creatively… we rise to each debate
And should a newbie join our midst… with baited pen we wait
Religion, Love and Politics… these things have started wars
Though we are catty, it’s in good taste, for most have filed their claws

and sharpened up their cyber tongues and educated minds
So I might join the The Poets Club – if you are not my kind
I’ll quote the great philosopher – his name was Groucho Marx
A fish may ride a bicycle – but where’s he gonna park?

I would not join a club at all – if they would censor me
The reason that I write at all – is cause I know it’s free
I would not pay with dignity – If my words fell to edit
I’d sooner take my words right back and one by one I’d shred it

So if I join the poets club… just wave at me and wink
And when I quote my favorite scribe… well… more than one may blink
As I look for a glass of port – you’ll hear the ice cubes clink
“You can lead a whore-to-culture… but you cannot make her think”
Euripides? Eumenides? My pants are now on fire.
I never really cared to join! That girl is such a liar.

So think it over… if you can… you’ll see that I am right
I cannot join the Poets Club if I get an invite.