pin a sub mysterious smile
upon your too predictable face
and bravely face your day
treat the old, reliable world
like a new and refreshing place
and the tender of the falsehoods
won't seem like they are the only way
especially when you no longer
feel so dead and old inside
that you have little or nothing more
to say
as the rejuvenation of the spirit
takes all forms of vagrancy away
for unbeknownst to most
a gift precedes each clay............
(Dec. 29, 1997(