As the Flickering Stars Smile With Ample Delight

What in time's complex breath causes you to ask Tacit monotony's spiral to complain so When consciousness cuts it own wings to better bask In the bright limelight and let the virgin girl go. Harley's ghost sits in my catatonic hallway Waving a banner crying out soon our defeat But we know better, giving up is not our way Across the white, Santa sits to his wafers eat. Whilst that romantic building burns hope sadly dies He with his favorite whip makes the reindeers cry From across surging ocean the albatross flies And little boy blue steals his auntie's apple pie! As the flickering stars smile with ample delight. The voices from Heaven cry out, no more not tonight. Robert J. Lindley, Sonnet Dec2nd, 1973 OLD NOTE- DELETED NEW NOTE-- She smiled when her love entered her bedroom His handsome face and boyish charm always did win Soon he would be all hers, as her romantic groom And they could each day live their pleasurable sin.