SPARKLE
—Carl Bernard Schwartz, Sacramento
There it is!
As shiny as a newly minted coin
resting in the ho-hum dirt on the
ground at your feet
Go ahead, reach down, touch it,
feel it, make room for majestic
respect in your lowly life
This is the gateway at last,
the next step you hadn’t known of
before this grand moment
Now you can take your rightful
place among kings and queens
and admired spokesmen all
around the globe
Just in case, spend a moment
researching it on the world wide
web to ensure that it is pure,
rare, original, real
Brace yourself, you haven’t snared
a trophy catch, it is just another fool’s
gold epiphany
Throw it back on the ground and
keep on walking.
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—Medusa (with thanks to Carl and to D.R. Wagner for passing along the illustration)
