*On life

«Je ne me réjouis que dans le grotesque aux confins de la mort. Tout le reste m'est vain. »

(Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

________

I am not

stem-lost so much

as cherry-tost with

the red on top

ha! reversed and

ready to go

like a fairly fit elf-

who's outgrown

but clinging idly to

soapy tentacles

of life til two bleary

eyes turn wise,

(a shot at the moon

if ever moon was!)