Insouciant


Some phrases raid
 a vacant page

  so unprepared
yet unafraid


   with anxious arms
  and boisterous voice

    such spectacles
      ungainly legs


       bounding over
    periods

 stumbling under
question marks


  toppling
     exclamation points

   like kids dropped off

 at candy shop s

 or tykes invading

    circus tents

or youngsters
    rushing through a mall
       to game the new arcade

   or hoodlums
         storming
             playgrounds


            free

      insouciant
  inside their spree

    content to run
        without a clue


     and limp back home
all black and blue.




Insouciant © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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Benjamin Franklin quote (in failing to prepare, preparing to fail) challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2747596-Quote-prompt-25-plus-words
Submitted: May 1, 2020









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