Circle Up Chums

Circle up chums My five-minute friends Let serene quips Raucous banter And sudsy bellows Ooze from every plank Stable and knotted enough To absorb the welts below Testimony joins the fun Sworn in by tongues Worth of beggar truth Slapped with blackened humor Salted to retard the melt In favor of icy declaration Some conjure regimes From ancient repression Or schooled outside the core To relinquish victory Unattainable and undeterred For degradation spawned From amusement's render Because nocturnal chatter Logs off the clock To join the mythic lore. (3/12/08)