Lovely Ambition

David Rogers

I think I will write a masterpiece

After lunch today.

Readers will no doubt sigh and say

It’s well-nigh beautiful,

The play of language across the page,

A virtual rage of genius.

It will not be light and frivolous

As others I’ve seen,

But of love, birth and death,

The major topics so to speak.

But first I’ve an appointment to keep —

Laundry in the corner piled steep.

I will begin with the delicates

As I am prone to do

Then pen my masterpiece in the afternoon.