what cottagers miss
summer guests are gone from the street,
fall approaches warily.
old man fox returns in silence,
soon his vixen will follow.
time slows to watch the geese fly by,
their bugles chase the weather.
Corpulent cottagers clapping like clowns
a fat Friday festival, gobblers and gowns.
Merry mad munchers of muffins and mirth
do-si-do dumbly, eaters of earth.
Champagne sugar shoved in a shoe
If love lasts not long, love handles will do.
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