can you write a poem
while attending a meeting?
what inspiration can be drawn
from administrative tasks?
is there treachery perhaps
in the act of governance
to inspire great words
and the people who read them?

perhaps not.
however there is a certain worth
when people gather together;
a kind of community
that seeks to create something new
and sustain the very created;
so perhaps…
perhaps wherever people gather
rises the opportunity for poetry;
we are, after all, living works of art.