Adrift Solitarily

   Adrift Solitarily

 

It’s not hard

to stack 

cards

numerically 

 (by color

and suit-

ed generic-

ally)

 

 

 into patterns 

familiar and easily made

 

(heart, diamond, club, spade).

 

 

So much simpler indeed,

hypothetically,

than to choreograph

words 

plumb poetically

creating a singular treasure

(something new and unique

beyond measure).

 

But unseemly, it seems

(and so lame)

this persistent insistence

in playing a game

(… and one more…

and one

more…

and a score and one

MORE...)

almost pathetically

and unapologetically.

 

(I ought to be ashamed.)

PSC/2015