Whimsical

Yes, I can scathe my body in the flames,

The bandages will shortly fall away;

All their money is to buy my happiness,

When I am driving on their fools’ errand.

Yes, I am looking patiently for a law,

To fastidiously heed, can you paint

As well as Picasso, there’s a footbridge,

Out there, a beautiful bridge on a stream.

Yes, as a boy I was a fisherman,

On the back of a ferry with dough lures.

Fox News says that spores falling from the sky,

Are landing on the leaves from a U.F.O.

Was from a movie I watched long ago,

And I’ll sleep now: four stanzas are enough,

To devout to such a poem besides I

Have to consider form if I want to

Be a Poet. Now then it’s 4:01

In the morning, I will go sleep or else,

I would miss my doctors’ appointment--

If I’m late he’ll plug me to a socket.

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Copyright 2022 Jeffrey Merk