(20 minute poetry)

Life beats you down
it gives you the smile
and then rips you
the frown,
dontya just love how
life takes you down.

It's rhetoric and enough of it
to make you sick.

What makes you tick?
What clicks your fingers?

Who needs to float when an ocean's so deep?
Who takes the dog watch tonight?

I keep my own counsel.

The season changes rapidly,
Spring bouncing by and blue Summer sky falling in,
can you
feel the sting
yet?

There's an upside I'm positive,
a terminal ending in a plus sign,
that ending is mine.

But it's Tennessee blue in the Central line zoo,
they're all caged
so am I
watching and waiting for
the Spring to bounce by
for the Summer sky
for longer days
for
different ways
to move on.