A Pity You Didn't Johnny Appleseed

A pity you didn't Johnny Appleseed
and scatter
the products of your devotion to
" the glamorous hell of love"
they could spring up for the reading of the will
with youthful juice
journey wildly from unknown corners
and contest it for a century Jarndyce vs Jarndyce
those having your dna would at least be beautiful
whether crossed with a Maltese
or a Borzoi from the Russian Embassy
there would be those hands on a boy
that amused glance on a girl
flashes of you lit up in an impassioned courtroom
there would be rivetting scandal and we would find out
whether it was all learned or innate
but my Grandniece might bump into someone
in Harrods
and think
strange he has the heart of poet