Poetry today

IN a modern world …very few enjoy …much less read poetry
but I stand as the

Rock of Gibralta,

composing myself created imagination
in the form of poetic emotion
so many do read
one poetry or another
why bother

no dimes are needed
guys look for dames
and gals want to play games
some think they are the only ones in existence,
whilst they are nowhere
on my minds maps composition

yet I continue to compose
do your indulgence
in me repose
for I think I am in line
for a noble prize

why worry, posthumous only you will give
in my grave,
I will get a thrill
hopefully it will wipe off the entire chill

six feet below
may be slightly cold,
when it does snow …

So friends think not of any dimes
commit no defamatory crimes

if my poetry inspires you
come and pat my back will you...