As Good As it Gets
When does it get good? Child's
Question innocent to the clown
Cuts to the quick and the core
Comic genius deflating, air escaping
Shrivelling balloon
Chance of laughs reduced to nil
Play novel movie much recommended
All London is talking, cutting
Edge, sure to shock, last word
Litterati, must see, have to be
In the swim and the chatter and
(Whispered) When does it get good?
Hold it there, childish question. Life
Love family home, choice
Of carpet, colour matching, perfect
Picture, all achieving
Good enough/ could be better?
Is everybody happy, smile now
All together, here's the moment
Seize it, breathe it, just a thought
What if this day- pick a day, any day
Is a present as peerless, as good as it gets?
27th July 2009, on 6.40 flight out of Gatwick to Toulouse, for Jenny and Clare with love
When does it get good? Child's
Question innocent to the clown
Cuts to the quick and the core
Comic genius deflating, air escaping
Shrivelling balloon
Chance of laughs reduced to nil
Play novel movie much recommended
All London is talking, cutting
Edge, sure to shock, last word
Litterati, must see, have to be
In the swim and the chatter and
(Whispered) When does it get good?
Hold it there, childish question. Life
Love family home, choice
Of carpet, colour matching, perfect
Picture, all achieving
Good enough/ could be better?
Is everybody happy, smile now
All together, here's the moment
Seize it, breathe it, just a thought
What if this day- pick a day, any day
Is a present as peerless, as good as it gets?
27th July 2009, on 6.40 flight out of Gatwick to Toulouse, for Jenny and Clare with love
From Jenny.
ReplyDeleteWey-hey Sally! You cut to the quick there, didn't you? You've expressed one of my thoughts exactly right! And it's not melancholy, like the song "Is this all there is?" - am I right? - but an assertion that life is here - now - in abundance, and we can drink it greedily - it's for us, if we will but enjoy it!
It flows along with the saying:
I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life,
But God gave me life, that I might enjoy all things.
Congratulations on the poem!
Love,
Jenny