A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

"Needs First"

We put needs first
as needs must, above
desires, wishes, wants

according to urgency,
not taste - it's not pleasure

we need, so much.
Such waste,

to drive ourselves on, obediently
to the yoke of need with such purpose, firm

- and the yolk

of the broken eggs on our face
that it takes

to make an omelette -

filled up with need,
folded over deftly, and left
to burn

'til we're through with it.

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