extra credit

Pay is not the most intimate concept
this poet has had the pleasure to touch.
Since the world seems to be caught in the arms
of craziness possessing monstrous lust,
maybe a practical idea would be

to see about how to earn a bundle
that will keep the cookie jar from too much
hunger come winter; that’s no way to sleep.
but that jazz of pizzazz in bookish lands
legendary for whimsicality

that lit with a channel-wide happy beam
the snug-set mountain laboratory,
has drifted into the distance these days.
Really a creator’s environment
should be given credit as co-author.