Tag: Poetry

I will not – could not – buy more tea.
I should not – can not – buy tea for me.
I cannot drag it to and fro.
From place to place – this I know.

I cannot buy it from a store, I cannot buy it anymore.
The tea cupboard is flowing out the door.
Get the kettle from the drawer!
On the tea leaves, pour pour pour!

Do not buy it, Susan, I say.
Do not buy it, I so pray.
Stay on home and drink it up.
Use the tea you’ve got in your cup.

I will not, cannot, buy more tea
Not for you, or he or she.
Drink Drink Drink, you must must must.
No more tea!  Until just dust!

October 26th, 2012 Extra-Ordinary:  What the heck is assam tea anyways?!  Doesn’t matter, I’m drinking it and anything else I find in the cupboard.