COLD PIZZA PIG-OUT!

Leftover cold pizza came his way,

That doesn’t happen every day…

He should have saved

But he truly “knaved”,

Over time, he ate it all up today!

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–Jonathan Caswell

BEING USED WELL

BEING USED WELL

The concept of being “well-used”

In Dickens’ MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, or EDWIN DROOD…

Has different connotations

From its originations,

We think now of being abused.

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To wit:  being used well,

One had one’s talents to tell…

Which another might coax

To profit you both,

The resultant outcome would be swell.

–

This negative sense of well-used,

Not so easily disabused…

“Used” is being taken

Spit out and forsaken,

The kind of thing of which we’re not amused.

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Has someone helped you reach your full potential,

Been positive as your personal seneschal…

If thus you are improved

And life has come well-hooved,

Then gratefully say you have been used well!

–Jonathan Caswell

(My college English Literature professors would be pleased.)

NEW (BUT FAMILIAR) DOCTOR’S OFFICE

NEW (BUT FAMILIAR) DOCTOR’S OFFICE

 

The doctor I had…retired…

And the buyout of his practice required…

A physician new

At a different office to

Continue my care as transpired.

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The buyout people were the same,

As my wife’s plan with the same name…

My wife cared

And she gladly shared

He doctor–a woman of fame.

–

Her doctor we’d seen a long while,

A number of years her style…

We both got to know

‘Cause I had to go

In with the Missus each trial.

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So my “new” doctor’s office is mine,

Which we’ve visited for a long time…

Her doctor gladly

Took on me,

‘Cause we’ve known each other over time.

 

–Jonathan Caswell

 

UNCERTAIN IDENTITY

UNCERTAIN IDENTITY

 

A poet who doesn’t stay

Within a certain tense…

How can they find a way

To keep on making sense?

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Too many interests dampen the soul

Overwhelming one’s nature…

When left uncontrolled,

But what happens over time???

 

–Jonathan Caswell