It's possible that I'll find
you stewing
on the stove
layered between bubbles
of beef and sour cream;
or maybe I'll see you
gripped frantically
at the end of the cat's tail
desperately holding
to self-preservation.
Often, I'll catch
you swagger through
the door
just behind my smarter half
around dinner time at 6PM
listen to you
listen to you
snickering at the heated debate
between him and his zipper
over the frailty
of restraint's constitution.
But, normally, it'll be
on a rainy afternoon --
while I sit beside the window
in this oak rocker
creaking back and forth
to muse's rhythm
to muse's rhythm
and listening to the pat, pat, pat
of double-paned complaints,
-- that you'll peek
at me from Picasso's
or Monet's brush stokes
or flutter from Baudelaire's
bound thoughts
reminding me
that they too,
were inspired
by someone else's
inspiration.