Basking In Its Radiant Glow

This month I am not going to receive an Apple
iPod for my unrequited efforts in attracting
internet traffic to the Poem Hunter site –

I know it because I haven’t achieved
anywhere near the requisite number
of unique hits on my home page or

engaged in the levels of intensive self-
promotion needed to be seen larger on
the screen. Perhaps it is better this way;

perhaps I can stay just barely read by a
few cognoscenti and blissfully, wistfully
unknown to the wanton, wider World.

I do not want an iPod, nor do I want to
play God, I am happier being here in the
basement of the towering edifice,

not quite alone – not quite unknown,
stoking the fires in the furnace
basking in its radiant glow.
© 19 April 2007, I.D. Carswell