Poem: The Most Recent Poetry Reading

She said, ‘you’re not going to read the poem about Michael Jackson are you?’ 

I said, “I am going to read the poem about Michael Jackson”.

She said, ‘you can’t’.

I said, “I can”.

She said, ‘Aw...it will be awful, I can’t bear to watch, you can’t....’

I said, “I probably will still read it...”

And then several different  poets got up to read. There  was a song…