This Is Not a Picture Plant

Interesting and pleasing
Readers whom ordinary
Poems repel, you’re welcome here,

Although you might not think so,
Although this makes no effort
To be pleasing to your ears,

To trigger your memories
In startling combinations
Of tropes and imagery,

To rouse your fellow feeling,
To thrill you with feeling seen,
To let you taste the holy.

You’re welcome. We won’t keep you.
We’re just talking to ourselves.