You can’t dunk sardines
In coffee and cream
For taste,
Or buy magazines
To get anything
But waste.
Pretending to ease
Insecurities
Is fake.
—
A third Lai for
dVerse,
along with
Lai’ing Alone
and
Sunrise.
You can’t dunk sardines
In coffee and cream
For taste,
Or buy magazines
To get anything
But waste.
Pretending to ease
Insecurities
Is fake.
—
A third Lai for
dVerse,
along with
Lai’ing Alone
and
Sunrise.
Short and spunky. I love the theme and what you did with the form. Thanks for participating in our poetry form challenge.
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Not sure if I see the third stanza quite that way. Sometimes it’s a matter of limited resources that need to be steered towards emotional survival.
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True. I’ve been in both positions.
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It is hard to ease insecurities.
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