When Poetry

When is poetry ripe to write
when urgency cries you pin it down
before it eats you out of board and spouse,
for poetry is the domain of the chronically possessed
like a wicked itch much scratching does not put to rest,
may even bruise, hose it down,or else
it'll make you climb the wall, or send you down the tube
If it takes from now to Tuesday, exorcise the bastard now!
In order for a seed to sprout,the pod must fall
the pod must crack. It's a matter of surrender and release
...to another pass the contagion