Modern Day

here lies a midas
whose touch
was much
more than glass
that turned into pearls.

all of the girls
with pretty curls
worshipped him in such
dedicated ritual– a class
of witches, elves and earls.

lamentations with bruch
accompanying tears in impasse
or a leaking gas
close to a chain smoker that twirls.

Younglan Talyoung