"Mrs Loq and Mr Lac" by Jim Murdoch

Mrs Loq and Mr Lac

My wife is a novel

and not simply any novel.

A tome:

wordiness stretched

to the nth degree.

I, on the other hand,

am an idea for a poem.

A good idea, I grant you.

But still

just an idea.

Bio: Jim Murdoch: Scot, gatophile, honorary woman, classical music aficionado, novelist, Whovian and producer of half-to-three-quarter-(and-occasionally-actually-fully)-decent poems for over half a century.