I can sit here and say it is time <br />as I pack my poetic affairs, <br />no more free verse or silly ole rhyme <br />let me lug all my stuff down the stairs. <br /> <br />I have learned to be tolerant, true, <br />to shut up when the freaks need to talk, <br />I don't know about many of you <br />but for me it is high time to walk. <br /> <br />Over Christmas, the leisure permits <br />to withdraw with all luggage intact, <br />this was never the Poet's own Ritz <br />as in all of the features it lacked. <br /> <br />As they say, it's the captain who steers <br />and who always must take the first nip, <br />from the evidence though it appears <br />that this one will remain on the ship. <br /> <br />It takes courage to stand up with pride, <br />and to deal with one's fellow man, <br />when it sinks one must quickly decide <br />though I doubt that this officer can.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich 2<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/leaving-a-sinking-ship-not-all-are-rats/
