Like evening in a plastic wrapped container
Or a two liter bottle filled with morning dew
A life is lived in light and captured sound
Fast-forwarded to be lived out by you.
Everything you see is edible,
Consumable by one sense or another.
But don’t enjoy these bounties all alone!
Share them with your sister and your brother.
Take more than you can eat from what is here.
Stay plastered to your seat forever, dear.
Don’t look too close at Heaven, lest you see
It’s only colored dots, a fantasy.
Why struggle when the prison’s made of silk?
If you go out, be sure to bring back milk.
A Life in Poems 