_In Reply to Lori Jones McCaffery_
"Poetry Challenge 1: One sentence, 17 syllables"
_I'm doing a variation and writing a poem consisting of only 17 syllable lines:_
Born with everything possible; how disappointing it came to this,
watching dull rain erode the snow from chilled off-white to curb-frozen ash,
drinking old Ardmore and lamenting an ironic philosophy,
Evan's law - as disposable income rises, so do all the bills.
"Poetry Challenge 2: 10 Words - Time, Place, Emotion"
I was thirty-nine in Washington with a Turkish girl:
I chased my feelings for two years until I found
her in bed with someone else. So, to hell with her:
I'd rather get drunk and watch the snow melt.