Robert Colpitts

Has it been two?
Only two?
Or – holy cow – two?
Has it?
This precious little
Search is
Teaching me
How to count.
Me so proud.

Oh my goodness!
Only 3 minutes left!
Then I am off off off
Off to work and then back again.
And with this three minutes
I shout within:
WHAT WHAT WHAT DO i DO?
This, then is that something,
There are no birds here,
There are no people,
There is not a lamp on my desk,
Nor quarters lined up,
Nor gentle thoughts cuddling with my
Next To-DO.

I am giving up on this with
TWO MINUTES LEFT!

One time
A theme
Once and once only
There it is
That moment
The last you’ll
Know just like it

Wait a minute
I was thinking
About
How easy it is
To make you see
What I see

To get a person
Who never tries
To give up
Is a simple matter

Just don’t respond
When they call

That is the sparkly truth

I need a nice person bath today

Rough mousing
Is not
The kind of
THING
That wakes you up
When weather
Inclement
Takes a
SHINE
To your
Booties

What reverent
Flower?

What make-up
Cha-coon?

Non-metaphor
Non-squirking

Rough mouse
Hits the floor
And dies

A flower
Blooms

Crack
Crack
Moo