An Internal Memo

From my latest book, Vanishing Fair, available on Amazon.


Let's indulge ourselves
In the pointlessness of positive thinking
For a change
Instead of the unsurprising
Expected impending doom
Which has not disappointed
In its daily rounds
Shall we get all Shirley MacLaine
And take a trip to the 
Past lives pavilion
Just to draw strength from
Previous failures
Or go full postal Dale Carnegie
Who believed in his philosophical larceny
So much
He changed the spelling of his last name
Thinking that people would associate him
With the rich family who built libraries
And they did
Or maybe what would work better
Is just realizing
We're doing the best we can
And we should understand that
The ability to continue through
The King Lear storm
Is something to be acknowledged
And appreciated
It probably won't subtract any sorrow
But it might
And that delusion
Is something you can dine out on
If not for a meal
Than at least an amuse bouche
Which is marginally better than nothing


Copyright 2020 by Steve Keil