for your personal appraisal

what am i bid for
words that defy
gravity and laugh
at time?

a compleat & un-
expurgated edition
of that riddle for
which aeons have
no consequence.

what will
you trade for these
much prized platitudes &
incomparable ponderousities?

well filigreed
conversation,
bronzed quotations
with sumptuous
green patinas &
grandly serendipitous
furnishings of the
imagination

will be
gladly accepted.