Lacquered (Choose A Finish)

Man is the artificer of his own happiness. - Thoreau

ha ha ha

i laugh

ha ha

i chuckle

ha

i perpetrate fraud

as a chortle ushers masked tears

it only seems like an eternity

but it's forever's dark years

trying to hide the pain

reminding me that

shellac is another form of stain

Author's Note

"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light." - Thoreau