Produced by Dennis Camire
This week’s poem is by Ted Bookey of Hallowell and is from his new book “Stitiously Speaking” published by Moon Pie Press.
On The Way to Wonderful
By Ted Bookey
— For Bill Withers
“Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.” — Jean de la Bruyere
Who are you to want to add to what is not lacking?
All that needs saying has already been said,
the wheel invented with amazing regularity.
And you keep on, rearranging the old tune
for a different key, different rhythm, singing
what’s been so exactly, wonderfully sung.
No, it’s not wrong to head out for Wonderful.
Why not? Anything can happen, since
everything happens.
But on the way to Wonderful it’s likely
you’re going to pass through All Right.
And when you get to All Right?
Take a good look around you.
This may be as far as you
are going to go.
The important thing is
to let it be all right,
not the end,
only the and . . .
Dennis Camire can be reached at dcamire@cmcc.edu
Send questions/comments to the editors.
