Mikaela Castledine #182 Thank you and Goodnight (tongue in cheek for all the June poets)

I’m thinking of journeys and tasks

Sisyphus Christ the miller’s daughter

oh they are eternal

punishment for misdeeds

meant to instruct

Herculean you might say

one poem per day for one year

rolling each one uphill

twisting each one into existence

carrying the immense weight of them

it’s a capricious damnation

and then others come along

for a matter of weeks

no more

and look, I’m not...

but christ!

if Simon of Cyrene had said

phew! carrying that cross

for that little section was hard

I’m glad I did it

but I might have a little lie down now

Jesus would have nailed him a new one

thanks for your poems

it’s been lovely reading you

but ease up on the exhaustion

some of us have 184 more to write