Produced by Dennis Camire

This week’s poem is by Ted Bookey of Hallowell and is from his new book “Stitiously Speaking” published by Moon Pie Press.

 

On The Way to Wonderful

By Ted Bookey

 

— For Bill Withers 

 

“Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.” — Jean de la Bruyere

 

Who are you to want to add to what is not lacking?

All that needs saying has already been said,

the wheel invented with amazing regularity.

 

And you keep on, rearranging the old tune

for a different key, different rhythm, singing

what’s been so exactly, wonderfully sung.

 

No, it’s not wrong to head out for Wonderful.

Why not? Anything can happen, since

everything happens.

 

But on the way to Wonderful it’s likely

you’re going to pass through All Right.

And when you get to All Right?

 

Take a good look around you.

This may be as far as you

are going to go.

 

The important thing is

to let it be all right,

not the end,

 

only the and . . .

 

Dennis Camire can be reached at dcamire@cmcc.edu

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