Poetry?

poetry is not an idea
that I have spent any time revisiting
she asked me,
"Do you write poetry?"
I told her,
"Not for years."

but.
would it be so bad
to tell a story with
sil-
ly line
breaks or
obscure and melodious
language?

or perhaps a short story, or two, the old "once upon a time" and a princess and a terrible dragon or a tall tower, the charming prince who shows up, only to find that he isn't needed there after all, or a young man on a journey about town, perhaps for a cup of coffee or a magazine, and the people he meets and the thoughts that slide, sudden and perhaps a little dangerous, into his head...

would do me some good.