Some Kind of Lesson in Poetics

I knew it was a mistake to take you to a poetry bar

Our first date but I did it anyway I wanted to impress

I guess but when we arrived the poems parted

Before us like Moses-and-the-Red-Sea or some other 
Cliché and I got us a table in a dim corner and then

Squeezed between two beefy ballads just to belly
Up to the bar for our drinks jeez these guys were 

A couple college football poems one a blond 
Crew-cut the other braided dreadlocks and yes

I ignored their hostile gazes and sharp elbows even 

One lucid nudge that spilled half your martini damn

Jock poems! And they had these two sexy sestinas

With them that were dancing together and

Remember how you got pissed at me for staring?