Yesterday, 11:51 AM
To Do Lists are for Suckers
Sisyphus had it all wrong.
I’m thinking more Ophelia
tho’ less maudlin bobbing
within the wake of ferry
and Vaporina carrying
those with a penchant for moving.
Did I say “I” when I meant “he”
or “a man” or simply “someone” bobs
in the clear and temperate waters?
The only concern is the rapscallion
flip-flop of the right foot coming loose
repeatedly perhaps
to avoid the slime of a rocky bottom.
We are happy
swaddled in the bosom of Como
the horizon denied from Bellagio
to Varenna
where there is no future
only the now
of cloud capped peaks looming
as they have.
Sisyphus had it all wrong.
I’m thinking more Ophelia
tho’ less maudlin bobbing
within the wake of ferry
and Vaporina carrying
those with a penchant for moving.
Did I say “I” when I meant “he”
or “a man” or simply “someone” bobs
in the clear and temperate waters?
The only concern is the rapscallion
flip-flop of the right foot coming loose
repeatedly perhaps
to avoid the slime of a rocky bottom.
We are happy
swaddled in the bosom of Como
the horizon denied from Bellagio
to Varenna
where there is no future
only the now
of cloud capped peaks looming
as they have.