all those damn artists

She left her regional-sales leader husband
feeling the need for more poetry and art
and maybe a poet or artist or musician
but all those damn artists are messy and flighty
and never seemed to notice her charms
meantime her husband the salesman
closed a great big new contract
and his new wife was just half her age.

feel for just a moment: grace

I can breathe on those pretty words
they mean something to someone somewhere
each one a trashy overgrown city alley
a transcendent mountain path all alone
birds circling ideas of beauty in your mind
letting you touch what hasn't been said
and feel for just a moment: grace