Sunday, November 21, 2010

piebald

The Penny

Imagine my shock when I discovered

The cost of koi, one lone, piebald koi

Was in the hundreds.

Did you see the look on my face

In that moment, that one, blurred moment

When I thought, In such a world I can ill-afford

To fall in the pond retrieving my wish-wasted penny.

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