After & For Dorothy Parker
Forty years in an office
Designing data
For indifferent traders.
I may as well drink.
All my money spent on art
And life in Manhattan.
(Consider Manhattans.)
I may as well drink.
One week by the sea, then
Back to the canyons.
The Borough is boiling.
I may as well drink.
Oh flowers, oh seaside, Oh gunquit
Gone in a blink.
I may as well drink.
© Claire L. Frankel 2018
When you are deskbound
Poetry is the only possibility
You can start a novel
Or a non-fiction
On your Corporate edition of WORD
But weeks of DELIVERABLES
(Now ! Now ! Finish it !!)
Will wear you down
And remove your focus.
A poem is a burst
A starlight
A breakthrough
So clear, so happy,
So breathtaking.
Unbound.
© Claire L. Frankel 2019
When you are deskbound
Poetry is the only possibility
You can start a novel
Or a non-fiction
On your Corporate edition of WORD
But weeks of DELIVERABLES
(Now ! Now ! Finish it !!)
Will wear you down
And remove your focus.
A poem is a burst
A starlight
A breakthrough
So clear, so happy,
So breathtaking.
Unbound.
© Claire L. Frankel 2019
Forty years in an office
Designing data
For indifferent traders.
I may as well drink.
All my money spent on art
And life in Manhattan.
(Consider Manhattans.)
I may as well drink.
One week by the sea, then
Back to the canyons.
The Borough is boiling.
I may as well drink.
Oh flowers, oh seaside, Oh gunquit
Gone in a blink.
I may as well drink.
© Claire L. Frankel 2018
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