Discouraged by television hosts

lack of jobs, from coast to coast

what will I resolve in 2012?

My goals were simple

long ago

most completed

as far as I know

When I was little

I wanted four things

marriage

children,

nurse,

and teacher

I aspire now to be a poet

enjoying rhymes

don’t you know it

dabbled in other forms

and essays too

still there is a kind of comfort

from a rhyme or two

debts need to paid

and not a flake

something needs to give

or take

nothing left of great value

only me

an ancient statue

photo taken in March 2002 by J. Kolak