MODERATE OPERATIVE.

Recently
There’s been a slow down
Of incentive,
Of invention;
A departure from the star chart,
Or maybe there’s existed
A whisper of excitement,
An increase in delight,
A definate turn of preferred pallete,

But I guess it all depends upon
Where you’re coming from
In the first place,
And I have
To address
The fact
That I generally putter along
On the flat line,
The horizontal cockle,
Neither jumping manically above it
Nor lunging too far below

And although there are occasional peaks,
And periodic troughs,
There are not enough
To speak
Grandly of them,
Or in their turn
Burn their appearance
Into a consistent blister of either,
But as I could be wallowing
In a slump’s dungeon
I suppose that’s not such a bad thing.