Accomplishing

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090505

IN SUM

maybe when you’re dead maybe then
they will take a look at the words you
wrote at the sum total isn’t that redundant
of all the hours of effort and creation
of whatever caliber maybe when you’re
dead they will even study it as an arc of
output that provides insight into a
corresponding trajectory of human
wonder-ecstatsy-dejection-demise-etc
maybe when you’re dead your work
will become a cautionary or laudatory tale
and will thereby serve a purpose and you
will have accomplished the good in the
world that you intended though perhaps
not in the way you intended and maybe
when you’re dead it will be a good thing
altogether


LIFE CYCLE OF A BUSINESS

1. Not busy, no money.
2. Busy, no money.
3. Busy, money.
4. Not busy, money.
5. Never been there.


090504

MELODRAMA QUEEN

Givest thou me
some work to do;
else I bid thee, World,
adieu.


PARTY OF THREE

A fried-peach dessert,
SO worth the money!

Then we added ice cream.
Then we added honey.


090503

RETICENT

As I take
some other person’s
hand to shake—

over there
stands the friend
I want to make.


PRE-LAUNCH

Four eager birdlets
with eyes black-bright
peer from their nest,
stretching toward flight.


090502

IN PRAISE OF PEN

In every writer’s life, no doubt,
there comes a time of writing drought.
But—there’s nothing like a good fine pen
to make one want to write again.


REPORT

The poet wrote,
and she won prizes.

Her work—one loves,
another despises.

Her poems—one or two
make the rest worth sifting through.


090501

INCONGRUOUS

A tech-school marquee
near the four-lane is wooing:

Come get your degree!
We train in horseshoeing!


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