Elegy

You can wait for the conversation to start...

I have to speak in code...

I'm being stopped...

Your wish came true...

I'm very happy for you...

I hope you get all you deserve...

...

Chains break free...

​​​​​​Shoulder weights get lifted off...

It's more difficult for an...

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,...

I (Matthew Scott Harris, a nineteen seventy seven Methacton alum, and an eccentric and opportunistic...

I (for half life of mine,
aa Norwegian bachelor farmer)
crafts gonadal venal zest
...

If you could see through the eyes of a child...

Close your eyes...

Be still, try not to...

Where are you, my love,
whom I shall never meet
to experience
the success of sin?...

December first nineteen fifty nine and
December first two thousand twenty three
represents...

greetings to a beautifully wrought reader
maybe ye happen to be a natural born leader
of...

Yup
I sobered up
despite expressing regular
(unleaded and unlettered)
urge to...

Let the children play...

Watch out for one another's child when you can...

​​​​​​They're...

Me primate chronological
adolescent age evinced
flood microsoft billeted gates
...

A symphony of chaos penned in grace,
In the realm of poetry, a sacred space.
In spilled ink,...

(a poetic partial fiction
blended, diced, fricaseed,
marinated, mixed, pureed, sautéed,...

Maturity, a mercy akin to sweet dessert,
Natural nobility, an oasis in a dry desert.
...

Tongue in cheek
by this moldering hybrid
combination nerd and geek
who suffers...