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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Beauty Is

Thank you, Jingle and Poets Rally!
I went to look for beauty today
I needed to see that it still existed
After a morning of encounters with ugliness
     foul words spit at innocent people
     a father yelling at his one year-old son
     a long, headache inducing waiting room purgatory
And dates with distress
     too much blood
     that suspicious lump
     one more test
     and just one more, just to be sure
Fled to the grocery for something pretty and tasty
And found the fish wasn't fresh
And the gossip was stale as well
But the kid in the check-out lane cracked a lame joke
And it set us all to laughing
And for a moment
Everything seemed beautiful.

submitted for Thursday Poets Rally, week 39