Sunday, September 6, 2020

When Such as I Cast Off Remorse

 I am
(and I’m not modest)
the most beautiful thing under the sun.

(“Lorazepam”
has a nice ring
to it.) I am

an unsheared lamb
bleating in the spring,
cutest thing under the sun.

I can
dance and I can sing—
I am

quite sure you can do the same
when harvest
time comes and you chirp in the sun

your grasshopper song.
(But my rhyme’s misplaced.)
I am
the most beautiful thing under the sun.