Avoiding the Optimist
Fearful
Of a cheerful
Half-full
Glassful
Earful.
New MacBook
Friends told me go for it.
Dumb me, I went for it.
What can I show for it?
Not what I spent for it.
Poetry Reading
They say “Break a leg”
(Good luck) in show biz
But as poets we beg
Ora pro nobis.
Ending Pending
About my personality,
My ego and my id there,
I can say with finality…
(Did you see what I did there?)
Cravat Emptor
In the Nineties
I had nine ties
(of course).
But now it’s a new millennium
And I don’t have ennium
(remorse).
Edmund Conti can write a long poem if he puts his mind to it and is encouraged. Which is why you don’t see too many of them. Meanwhile his glass is half-full and his bucket list overflows.