Poet’s Lament

by Tonia Kalouria

I’m running out of Reason and
     I’m running out of Rhyme.
I’m running out of Poems, and
     …I’m running out of Time!
And sad though all this be, my friend,
     You know what will be worse?
Conspiring with ChatGPT 
— and fridge Magnetic Poetry—
To try to write “FreeVerse”!