Tag: Labor Day

  • Labor Day

    I’m giving up
    I’ve quit drinking beer
    and now no more
    ice cream, potato chips,
    or salt peanuts.

    And I’m tossing out my books
    dumping the personal
    paperback library
    hard they fall
    off the emptying shelves.

    And friends no more
    I’m ditching them all
    who gave up on me
    long ago anyway.

    And my host
    from Galilee
    He becomes harder
    to follow as the trail
    narrows and winds
    up thru the dry hills.

    Today’s the day
    Labor Day
    I throw it all away
    beginning with this
    espresso poem
    for as you can see
    hopefully I keep
    a little poetry.