it’s only been since March
you protest – just nine months
not a lifetime wasted
not as if I didn’t want them
repaired but a day expended
thus seemed too much to pay
Heaven’s sake sunglasses don’t
make that much difference even
if they’re tinted reactively
one wonders what I missed since
seeing this with great clarity as a
miniscule perversion of shame
© 5 December 2009, I. D. Carswell
