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Eden’s Eastside

 

I wanna go

to Cannery Row

ride my Red Pony

~cantering slow~

–Travelin’ with Charley—

a fellow who knows…

Steinbeck, the author

a scribblin’ pro.

 

We’ll meet him

near Eden

just East of idyll–

I’ll sweet talk

and greet him

and ask if he will…

embellish my history

–so run of the mill—

and rewrite my life lines

with his skillful quill…

 

I’ll ply him with Grapes

not Wrathful: fermented!

whatever it takes

’til’ bio’s cemented,

The facts lightly fudged

to proper extent, so

ending reveals

a Pearl of content,

and Zeitgeist disguises

its lack of event.

 

The background

will foreground!

and crises turn pages…

description

encryption

from infant to aged

Yes, John is the man

to record my diction

of life I have lived

a creative non-fiction.

©Karen Robiscoe

daily prompt: ghostwriter

dba Moonlight

Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER

Workin’ at clerkin’

a skill that I’d master

an artform

that’s patently

blatently

vaster

than rifling papers

or handling

cash

or picking up phones

as drone paid to answer

FAQs from the masses

at bottom of

“latter”

 
 

I’d climb up

those

r

-u

–n

—g

—-s

like peers that predate me

as fast as I could

but don’t try to rate me

I’d square up with light

in energized weight, flee

mind-numbing work

much sooner than late, see

if Einstein could do it

what might my fate be?

 
 

Else I’d choose

buildin’

to (round out)

my profile

constructin’ the frameworks

and layin’ the tiles

since hammers and nails

are still somewhat vital

and carpentry’s prideful

to take on as title

besides my friend Jesus

could back up my bio.

©Karen Robiscoe

daily prompt: second job