Parnassus Poem by Kevin Kiely

Professor-poet invited
the Mexican poet, the Indian poet and the Jamaican poet
to his house for dinner
greeting them with
‘The rumours of my being famous are greatly exaggerated.'

Professor-poet's wife had also invited
neighbours, a he-poet and a she-poet
who brought along their baby daughter.
During dinner the Mexican poet announced
that he had two sons
who were
fine young poets.

Professor-poet asked the she-poet
‘Will your daughter be a poet when she grows up? '
She may well be, was the answer.
Later she asked him when he spoke of his two sons
‘Do you think there will be a poet in either of them? '
He confidently replied,
‘probably in both.'