Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Lamentation 2

 A sage suggested that, instead of letting irritation run to anger, one should write a poem instead. 


Cost high, portions small,

but the taste killed appetite.

So now I diet.

 

A bad meal — takeout at that — shouldn't make me lose my temper.  But I contain, if not multitudes, these two things: I am magnanimous in aspiration, grumpy in reality.

• Note: “Lamentation 1” appeared June 6, 2023.

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