As it is the season of giving, here is "A Present" from John Tranter's masterpiece Starlight (2010). "A Present" is a part of a series of poems entitled "Contre-Baudelaire", which "echo, respond to and sometimes argue with some of poems from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal".
A Present
Hey, sweetheart, here's a poem, take it
or leave it. One day, in the mysterious future,
these lines blown roughly off-course
may come to rest in a library, to amuse
a bored reader for a while. My portrait of you
will float above the limping syllables
and by the special magic of art, drift
in the haze of imagination, above the page.
Why do I bother? It's hardly your charm, from
Paris to peoria no one likes you much;
those who know you give you a wide berth.
You mock the talented and sneer at the stupid
as though God had set you up in a judgement;
more demon than angel, but utterly lovely.