When It Rained Poems

Initially it was irritating

When everyone began to write. 

The newspaper boy announced his poesy first

The shy milkmaid shed her shyness, 

Posting daily poem for status.

The physician wrote his

Below every prescription.

The professors were concerned

Established raised alarm bells

It was coming like pandemic

Poems! In every curve and turn a poem 

Every bitter gourd had a poem for cover

Which moths brutally reviewed

Of all the people who wrote that year 

The beggar wrote the best,

Only he cared not to publish

Having surveyed life

From its close quarters, the street.