Literary Manners

Thwarted is a word our poet could use

Such as he was thwarted by laundered

Underwear she left hanging from various

Light fixtures or maybe his libido was

Thwarted in the exalted realm of the boudoir

Or perhaps his desire is a knife sunk half

Deep into his thwarted dreams yet our poet 

Will be content and grow his beard long

Enough to be shaved long enough to thwart

A lover’s pale cheek and a lover might

Express herself in a sharp gesture of disgust

Because she hates plants despises them

Since spending a toilsome season among
Confrontational flowers that love thwarted