The Need

Drip, drip, drip, day after day.

I seek to see no new faces today.

Needn’t meet and greet customers

or passersby either for I am retired

and have nothing of consequence to

say. I feel more fortunate than most

that way. Drip, drip, drip, time slowly

drips away, day after day. We all pay

with our youth, so to say. Easy peasy,

breezy, sleazy, Humpty Dumpty, fiddle

faddle, brick-a-brack come what may.

Drip, drip, drip, faucets, damned leaky

faucets piss me off. I’ve got one of

those. Must call maintenance, the

only face I need to remedy the in-

cessant dripping today.

Fa-la-la, La-la-la-la!

Chris Hanch 12-23-19