Friday, October 16, 2015

Forty Thousand

Forty thousand is a lot
of money, honey, even if
below the nation's av'rage.
I would take it, make it if
I could. But forty thousand
hits, it's freaking awesome
that some people I don't even know
and some I do, would take
the time, would make the time
for rhymes and such and maybe
I should post more often,
not the daily thing again, but
more. Return, oh muse,
and use me as you will
until I am a millionaire
of sorts, as if I'll live that long.
I might. And there are thousands
more, the words I mean, that
need their freedom and release.



(c) Ellen Gillette, 2015