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JOURNAL#16 Mr. Miller, where are your over wise words
for me tonight
have you come to sketch my short comings
Hark, where is your ever so solicitous yet
vicious bite
your angry finger taps out the staccato
rhythm of many a man's natural life
though just too trivial
it may seem to you
I myself tend to welcome such edgy respite
I have subscribed weekly now to your carefully
moderated though all too superior rapport
the common place injustices
found in our everyday society
when approached to be reproached by your
venomous verbal daggers
backs down at the threshold of your rapacious
humor's door
for the average man is too shamed afraid of
your well developed velvet rapier wit
for such a hopeful by stander
you see, you are just too damned quick
you testily fascinate one even as his
guarded self esteem you manipulate to floor
we take your cleverly knifed abuse so passively
yet turn around only to beg you for more
so, it seems the vanquished again welcomes the
veritable victor into his trodden upon heart
by way of roar
(the roar of laughter that is!)
we languish in and love your raw spin
on the over educated truth
which is reason enough I suppose to believe
why we allow you in our homes
every Friday night to soar............
(April 7, 1997)
