the morning after the twelfth night
Posted: May 18th, 2011, 5:10 pm
I was safe enough
in my little glass menagerie
free to sit in the dark
sipping something
stronger than pekoe
free
to linger on Malvolio's
wonderfullest trick of all
his desire to escape
his wooden prison without
removing a single nail
how he knew somehow
whatever hand life dealt him
he could trump it for his own
purposes, and for me tonight
here in the dark I'm thinking similar thoughts,
it's just that damn sun coming up....
that frightens me.
in my little glass menagerie
free to sit in the dark
sipping something
stronger than pekoe
free
to linger on Malvolio's
wonderfullest trick of all
his desire to escape
his wooden prison without
removing a single nail
how he knew somehow
whatever hand life dealt him
he could trump it for his own
purposes, and for me tonight
here in the dark I'm thinking similar thoughts,
it's just that damn sun coming up....
that frightens me.