Something Brief

Something brief
Even if it should cause you grief
That you get but just a snack
When what you want
Is the whole damn meal
Which just but goes
To show you this
We can't always get that thing
That we want alas
You get what you need
And that is me
Apparently
Because here we are
And you're happy yes
About this thing
So it must but work

Or am I just spinning
A salad of words
And you hate salad most
So this is where
You check yourself out
Well if that's the case
You do you
I'll still do
The poet's thing
For whoever happens by
Until I don't

Something brief
And filled with grief
Of things but lost
So not but nothing fun
That it should have been
Especially when
I'm in the post-film wake
And should be riding high
Thanks to that

But that's us artist folk
We're all kinds of broke
With no easy fix
Though money
Sure would do
A lot of good

Something brief
But lingering long
Like damn that fish
He's some kind of what
I'm not at all sure
Is good or bad
Just that I'm signed on
Wherever he goes

Charles Petrie

Date
09-17-19

Time 
23:30-23:51=21

Word Count
201

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