Help Wanted: Proprietor Takes Vacation

A ditty. I was in a lighthearted mood. No. not intoxicated.

b‘’h

9/24/11

HELP WANTED: PROPRIETOR TAKES VACATION

HELP WANTED: Proprietor takes vacation

From self.  Need someone to water garden

And take out trash and also remember.

All applicants please send resumés Here --

Or send them There -- without explanation.

If ambiguous, we beg your pardon.

Prefer an irresponsible member

Of society.  Will consider Martian.

Need individual next November --

Or another week. R.S.V.P. None.

Reviews

[sithlordjp]

Wanting to dissapear, to vanish for a while, but being tied down by a crushing routine... The proprietor wishes to leave, but he knows he won't... No Martian to rescue him from his life... That last word "none", says so much. At least, that what I got out of it... This is very moving, thanks for sharing.

[Firestone Feinberg]

You know, it's great when other persons review your poems; so often they see things in them that you never even 'thought' of before. I had just thought of this as a silly thing. I had never seen the hard truth that lay beneath it. You've opened my eyes; now the poem becomes part of me. Not too sure that's easy to accept -- but it's good to know, to learn, and to see. The poem, then, is really an illusive mirror: it reflected me too well -- so well that I was fooled. Thanks, sithlordjp, for your keen insight and fine analysis. --David

[sithlordjp]

It is a pleasure to dive in your words, your world.

[JM Russell]

I have read 3 of your poems and all I can think is a modern day ee commings Really good work.

[Firestone Feinberg]

Now you've done it! I don't know what to say but thankyouthankyouthankyou! --David

[jacob erin-cilberto]

another really good one...getting away from the expected...going opposite directions from the norm...

not being tied to what we are supposed to do, but just doing it.

jacob

[Firestone Feinberg]

There are, to be sure, some pretty sneaky rhymes in this! So happy you dig it and appreciate its strangeness. Have a great day, and thanks so much for your kind and wise words. --David