Both this ~ um ~ offering and yesterday’s “Well, Woman, Do Y’ COOK?” are actually brand new works, hot off the presses ~ indicating that the poet is in fact becoming sillier in her old age.

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Recorded Reading (2:11): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pwn09twzqik34sf6qq0rw/Partly-Grateful.mp3?rlkey=gbgvmdt0flwcie1vfy0eighsq&dl=0

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Partly Grateful

I thank you from the bottom of my heart ~
So, guess it’s from my liver that I’ll start
My eminent gratitude to impart

Though pause first to consider for a while
If it would really make anyone smile
From that organ getting digestive bile

Though even sadder to be seen
And disappointed they had been
With the contents of my spleen

If I wish to avoid your beetl’ing glower
I ought to spin my gears a little slower,
Expressing thankfulness a little lower

Okay ~ don’t say I never gave you nuttin’
‘Cause about this you should be rightly struttin’ ~
I thank you from my fuzzy belly button!

In your expression now I see a hint
That I have not rewarded you by dint
Of awarding you belly button lint

I fear that is, tragically, the case
I see that in your eyes I have no taste
Thus my attempts to thank you go to waist (ow!)

About the next won’t give you any lip
A geek like me could never get a grip
On how ever to be gratefully hip

Nor possibilities appear to lie ~
No genuine potential do I spy ~
In attempting to thank you from my thigh

And I think that even from here I see
Misunderstandings which might come to be
If I should thank you from a bended knee

Nor see aught benefit, by half,
Aside from a mystified laugh
If I should thank you from a calf

And still less understanding win
Our lower slower situation in
Offering gratitude from out my shin

Oh, me, oh, my, oh, gee, oh, gosh, oh, woe,
What I should do, I just don’t rightly know! ~
Suppose I should offer it from my toe??

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working seven days a week to contribute to her society, however.

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