40). To Keep

modern poetry

Your part is,
To keep accomplishing,
Until we know what summit's home free.

Unquestioning for a few months.
Listen.
The same kind on all your exchanges.
You're working for the people who decide;
Evaluate;
Red and green.

That's why I ask.
That's another literalist rendition.
Rote to date.
We were all brought up to be artists.


"To Keep," poem forty of "Lettersongs," unpublished work © 2008,
Lisa Page Weil.  All rights reserved.