opportunity

Opportunity
8-20-14


Playing today my R.E.M. archives
For a change of heart
In declaring thou art
To make a new start
In spite of the weather chart
Having a form of godliness
But denying its power
I say things that I really don't mean
To but pass the hour
Yes, all will suffer this persecution
Finding it not strange
By this great opportunity
To but suffer
And for it yet smart
As impostures wax worse
In that I quote this verse
To but continue in the things that yet profit
Knowing from when you have learned them...










Wain
8-20-14


Wheelwrights weep
As playwrights want to get their sleep
As poets are those to delve deep
As gymnasts take their quantum leap
I know not what I say in this
Where even the best players will but miss
As wainwrights fall off the wagon
As so I get my clean shave
To but celebrate my four years of sobriety
O, why do I still go to your father's concubine for comfort
O, make a league with me
And indeed we will see
All of that which is and is not...