Friday, August 30, 2024

Threepenny Opera

It is the way forward, the light on the path
even when demons have mortgaged our souls.
It is plucking the soulmate with seamless synchronicity,
the one who is simply there and aware

that the universe has performed the wedding ceremony.
It is the one-ticket lottery winner,
the disease that was only a fleeting phantom
on the gray and black diagnostic film,

a pain in the side that decided to leave on the evening train.
Sunrise might come with a heavy price—
a hangover from hell or the end of a plague—
or the sun might simply slide into the sky

for kindness’ sake, no alarums required.
Life is often a threepenny opera,
the silent unfolding of the unsullied orchid,
a grand ball to which no royalty is squired.

It may be a gathering of merry paupers on the green,
the heavenly city without the nuisance of Armageddon time,
a straight shot of pure tequila
without the rim of salt or the taste of bitter lime.

~William Hammett


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