For most poets
it's  an obsession 
a nagging one

a golden thread
through out their whole
sartorial collection of verse

we poets wear 
our art
like suits some

fit better than others 
and
some garments

well some
just need to be shot 
like lame horses

I'm being tangential
and sorry 
for the cruel morbid simile

but for my obsession
motels
the art deco flea circus variety

lately though
 motel 
and hotel art

it could be that
I'm in a really good place
for once in my life

that I can just
binge and gorge
on still lives of

cheap grocery store roses  
and
whimsical pictures of prancing horses

Whit Howland © 2019