I should be content with
bourgeois comfort
tend to my roses
swill wine with friends
I should be pleased
if not smug
with the knick-knacks
and dust I’ve acquired
I should wallow
in self-assured pity
that I deserve
everything about me
But I can’t so I must
change my life
(from a work in progress: “Arcana,” Queenpentacles, February 6, 2014)
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