a silly little cameo to <br />tease a smile from otherwise <br />engaged nonsensicalities <br /> <br />teeth bared in a taut-lip <br />caricature of a grimaced grin <br />caught out day-dreaming <br /> <br />yep, that’s me, barely inured <br />to rhythms within but seen to <br />be responding to procedures <br /> <br />it wasn’t what I failed which <br />made the grade but how I <br />lived with such certainty <br /> <br />laughing apace kept peace <br />stable and made this <br />love of life consummate <br />© 7 December 2009, I. D. Carswell<br /><br />Ivan Donn Carswell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/laughing-apace/
