poetry

people will tell me that poetry should be explicative
then they'll ask me what mine means.
i don't know why they get offended
when i tell them to shut the fuck up.
they're the ones trying to put my poems
in a box, labelled,tabbed, and color-coded.
what do my poems mean?
about the same as the warmth of her skin
under the blankets on a February night.
why does it have to mean anything?