That’s That

I had not thought about it.
The idea of writing a poem
in Patois, was how the poem was.
It would not heel.

It was what it wanted to wear that day.
It would be like that or it would not
be anything, ever. OK. That what
you wanted? Despite never tasting sugar

cane, the distinct lack of a Jamaican,
when I tried deleting the d, adding a th
it spat it out, with a yuck, ukh,
too salty.