February 2022
John David Muth
Comnenus2@yahoo.com
Bio Note: As I enter my fiftieth year, I am confronted with both physical and philosophical challenges I am trying to resolve. It is my custom to satirize problems in order to make them easier to endure.

Midlife Crisis

I don’t need a red sports car
or a woman half my age
who never heard of Jethro Tull.
 
I never regretted 
my lack of affluence
as I never really had much ambition.

What I want
I cannot have:
an earnest wish
for the arrogant to be embarrassed 
the corrupt to be exposed
the powerful to shoulder responsibility
and for the stupid to find lodgings
on another planet,
preferably one without an atmosphere.

I wouldn’t mind being able 
to read without glasses either.
©2022 John David Muth
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