Diagnosing Patience

Patience and people— 

a difficult combination. 

Judgments: a lifetime 

of pressed forget-

me-nots against the grass,

a marginal path along 

the trail. Good 

people wander  

and know I am here, watching,

creating disregard—

not much to say—we know,

it's situational, intelligence

knows it best, it’s a virtue

so treat it like that,

on a table in a lab where

methods treat the thumb

like a thorned flower

stem—empirical, everlasting

in our findings of just 

how patient people can be.

Comments

[silent lotus]

dear Joe

it would be interesting to hear this married to music

are you a performance artist ?

silent lotus