my feet are happy
soft white toes spread-eagle in the wind
airing themselves through sock lint
oh! how they've suffered
likewise my friends
i'd forgotten how much cleaner the air is
outside my room the balance given
by a warm sun and cool breeze
keeping me just the right temperature
oh! and the chirping of birds and rustling of leaves
indeed, i've squandered too many of these
days where i could have sat
on the remnants of a tattered beer box
perched up against a scrawny leafless oak
in a lonely forgotten parking lot
soaking it all in-
stead i've watched my hair turn gray in a building somewhere
but today i give you company.
Author notes
this is the original as best as i call recall it, with the exception of the dash after "in", as i've forgotten exactly how this line goes, and like the stutter. but if i figure it out, i'll correct it. other than that, there was a separated dash whose placement i cannot recall (nor find altogether necessary) in the second stanza and i'm not so sure about "scrawny" being the correct adjective for "oak." but these are small things i hope to recover. and if i don't, then at least i'll have the satisfaction of having learned my lesson: a poem's purity must not be sacrificed for "sophistication" - meaning bigger words and more poetic devices.
i can speak Latin later,
Pap
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