Living the Dream

Ordinary moments
for ordinary people,
living inside the dream

Like comfortable shoes,
a dog that won’t leave you,
treasures to esteem

Ordinary moments
for ordinary people,
the rest to scratch and claw

To get to a place
they’ll never find
—condemned to hem and haw

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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