overstuffed leather chairs

or on the shiny new day after
the twenty-second night
midnight’s tolling will be
slightly more joyous
not quite the same as
the first round of this
non-rhyming game
is played out till the end,
without desire for success
or prestige… tomorrow
new ideas replace old
scarecrows and ladybugs
can thus live harmoniously
before the harvest in the cornfields
that my poetry
finds stimulating... no,
it will not do, merely a simple
library with overstuffed chairs
or used bookshops serving tea at five
simple hints of dreams come true, and
after those bells finish ringing
maybe next time they’ll
be the eulogy accompanying
a winner’s choice, with my red
leather volume typed in bold
gold letters, that familiar name
printed carefully for all to see



overstuffed leather chairs
[2007.5.9…a]