I moved to New York after dropping out of college,
to be a poet,
but found myself writing computer programs
for an insurance company.

I had pieces published in college literary magazines,
but never had the confidence to become
the next Wallace Stevens.
Anyway, I like programming computers.

Three decades later
I compose my lines
as I drive to work
and wonder,
“What is poetry?”

Now, I write my blog posts
and meeting minutes
in a voice not much different
from my collegiate poems.