Obvious

Never again so simple,

and never again so kind;

they learn best to dissemble

who pretend to have a mind.

(Now where did I leave it?)

It was here, once.

I was here.

Or was it you?

(I get so confused, sometimes.)

When I was once a child,

or when you were young indeed…

To remember we are wild

is the greatest thing we need.

(Or was it something else?)

Eat right.

Exercise.

Pay the bills.

(Don’t forget to smile?)

What is it, always missing,

always never quite enough?

And why this serpent hissing

so much tawdry, facile stuff?

(Snakes are weird.)

Hiss.

Purr.

Whimper.