When with great resolve
A predicament's solved
It distinguishes wise men apart
From extemporaneously
Reacting spontaneously
And sliding once more back to start
It can manifest instantly
But don't think consistently
You'll rid of the wraith just as fast
Once the beast gets a taste
Of forbiddable haste
It grows as perennial as grass
So with patience and grace
Courageously face
The ghosts that dim pink hearts to gray
Devout perseverance
Is rewarded with clearance
Tranquility and prayer to lead them astray
Declarative mantras in tenacious pulchritude
reiterate the unbound verisimilitude.
The cohorts cannot comprehend the vicissitude.
Learning and judgments are encumbered in lassitude.
My thoughts are accomplished extemporaneously,
although they are all confronted adversatively.
Examples of life’s essences contrary to me,
adulterated by each potent adversary,
appear contiguous with each stark antonymy.
I seek honest truth from an external faculty.
I search for a scrupulous freelance authority.
Though time is quick, I seek this elusive entity.
I beseech your unencumbered intact allotment.
This installment will help elucidate my judgment.
Will supplies be exhausted in a fleeting moment?
Be munificent in this required fulfillment.
Love poems are written
By better men than I
I am not that outside-your-window
Serenading kind’a guy
My proposal wasn’t offered
Bent down upon one knee
Romantic sonnets I cannot read
I trip up on the word “thee”
But romance is not foreign
In the heart of this old man
Although showing it extemporaneously
May be out of my command
I am hopeful that with three little words
My romantic side can shine through
As I look you straight in the eye
And simply say, “I love you”
These two dice are now out to you.
And in case you don't know what to do,
you win with a seven
you win with eleven,
but you don't want a twelve, three, or two.
Composed extemporaneously while working the stick position at a craps table in
Atlantic City years ago.
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