I Forgot a Poem

Yesterday, yes; yester-day A poem paid me a brief visit It was the greatest poem that man ever wrote and read Greater than Desiderata and The Path Not Taken It’d have made you cry and laugh in painful pleasure It’d have negotiated with my gnawing poverty It’d have endeared me to my future mother of our children It’d have fetched me modest and kind In-laws Off it flew! And left me with vague shadows Of skeletal memories