Agnes by Tony Cochran for February 07, 2022

Go ‘a roving’ while there’s still time, Agnes. Lord Byron was right.

How about “Dumb—A Poem About Stupidity”?

She could find inspIration for that poem from any number of comic strip characters,

youth (*pronounced ‘yute’) and youngness

is all about the pursuit of amongness

Ahh youngness, I knew it well

Muses have things to do, Agnes. I’m told that sometimes they make maps of trailer courts.

They come at their own good time……

She’s a Trailer Park Woman, She’s a Mobile Home Princess, She’s the Queeeen of Fabricated Housing! Pinkard & Bowden

I muse myself. Write don’t wait.

Or Morpheus showing up to free a muse.

The single flaw in her plan reveals itself.

Sunk…