been becoming

i have been the meanest
i have been too compliant
i have been a genius
      and a far sighted giant.

A drop in the bucket.

i have been a hammer and rusty nail
a deck in the doldrums and a ship in full sail.

author by night and beggar by day.

tired musician and a song overplayed.

Doctor to some, jester to most.

i have been a student, teacher, and bar drunken host.

characters on a page,a  letter never sent.

A ravenous lion lying by a sheep with nothing to repent.

i have been a gluttonous ascetic.

A yolk in its shell and a blind man threatening hell through a cloud of obscenities.

the amusing amenities and tried and true home remedies that soothe you, move in and through you.

i have been my own chains
My weights, measures, gains, fates.
Hope and despair.

I've been the exact point where they meet.

the eternal click of a foot in the street.

I have been a trillion grains of sand,

A broad ideal held in one hand.

the monogamist's plight, the feral fox fitted with a fast flight or fight for your right!

To be

i have been he,
alone in the sea of thoughtless decrees.

Plaques and decrees cant hide shaking knees knocked down to the valley floor beyond small men and their friends who've long since cut off their hair and connection

-i've been the quick interjection- a minor digression and some loaded protection for well worth pleasant affection i've been the present erection in the hands and glands of grandstands of fans over a burger comemrcial - oh.

Too controversial, this is fun for the family!



And now what a calamity i've made of this end.

i've been the bend of the back cover, the grad-lover, the bad brother, the knight and fallen rook.

i've been the end of the rhyme and the last word that it took.