Friday, October 19, 2012

Poetry Friday


Yeah, I feel this way some days. Do you?

Understudy 
by Beverly Rollwagen

She just wants an understudy, a body
double for the days when she does
not feel like appearing in any of the roles
she has assumed and/or been assigned.
 ....

(Read the rest, just a few lines, here, at The Writer's Almanac.)

*****

Irene Latham has the round up this week at Live Your Poem.

3 comments:

Mary Lee said...

I could use one today. I will stay in bed, with the cat on my feet, reading the day away, and someone else can go be productive...

Ruth said...

Yes, wouldn't that be great?

Liz Steinglass said...

My kids say they want to put me in the copy machine, but then they'd fight over the original!