She came to this home for no known reason
Entirely unarmed unharmed
unabashed and unawares of,
well, so much. Yet,
relentless in a new and original
campaign of observance (not re:
Lent, Xmas, Black Friday or other
occurrences of a religious nature)
our guest off-limited doleful plus
judgmental asides of any stripe
proceeding to shepherd human phenomena,
fancying herself a pastor perhaps
fit or apt to judge physical spiritual mental
aspects of generations aplenty to vet:
three lean teens finding fishing folly not fun
lusty twenty-somethings sleeping past noon
older odd adults hammering something home
nouveau-riche mid-rangers pursuing trophies
and a three-ring circus of elder circumstance
around an erstwhile swimming pool
past which pranced a proud alley cat
with the scruff of a rabbit clenched in teeth
that lost the prey to rapid scamper
just as soon as he paused to preen…
Seen enough thought the woman in spectacles
I’m now set
to remove these prescribed framed lenses
to acknowledge the warmth of the sun. Stet.
-Charles A. Perrone.
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