Each Poem Is My Memento Poem by M.J. McGuire

I'd choose Ogden Nash
Or Edgar Guest,
Or Emily Dickenson

Over an ivory slope at Vail,
Or the setting of a tropical sun.

I'd choose G.M. Hopkins
Or W.B. Yeats,
Or even Christina Rossetti,

Over a cruise on the QE2...
On New Year's Eve with confetti.

I'd choose Robert Frost
Or W.H. Auden,
Or good old Karl Shapiro,

Over a wine tasting tour of France,
Or a visit to the grave of Nero.

I guess the moral being:

Everyone boards some train.
Everyone has there depot.

Mine is in my brain...
Each poem is my memento.

(1991)