Intentions
This Friday night,
In the city of my birth
(Which I intended to desert, on going off to college,
And indeed did, after my third graduation,
When I moved to the country,
Only to find myself back here, in St. Louis,
Some twenty-odd years later,
Doomed to surrender the salvation beyond civilization,
Shackled, again, to the liabilities of societal clutter),
I wish I weren't here, in this crowd-loud restaurant,
Rather sitting on the deck of the Lawn Beach Inn,
Eating dinner, overlooking Lake Nebagamon
Blessed with another sixty-degree September sunset,
Intending to spend the rest of my days
Indentured to the serenity of nature's private silences.
10/03/08 - (3)
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