No Loitering

Perhaps
it was forgotten
you were once free,

and now calloused
by false hopes
and dreams

set
with that glue
to planet Earth routine.

No longer to give
notice to the signs that read:

"No Loitering"
(City Ordinance Title 03.6732 Sec. C).

Recession Blues.
Languishing 401Ks.
Home values upside down.
Credit lines slashed, and
tight money flows.

Laid off
from company downsizing
to find you are
too educated for the job market,
or condsidered by others
too "old".

And foreclosure looms.

Space is "For Rent"
and "For Sale",

but now you are
a beggar, and
have no means.

Better change gears-
better yet,
change direction-

dump
that old set of wheels
you've been carting round in
you call the body,

hop out and snatch up
a tall, sturdy ladder,
climb
to the tip top
of your favorite tree,

and read this sign:

"Loitering Welcome.
Muse Away The Day."
~~

Copyright 2009 Francis Don Daniels.
All Rights Reserved.