James Bybee
	
Poetic Thoughts 2

The spiral staircase was growing lonely.

            The oxen ate three rows of radishes.

            The architect of future was a wooden match.

            A coach rolled on wheels of amethyst.

            The solving of the mystery was done in one second.

            The sum of the whole was the value of nothing.

            The ventriloquist had laryngitis and the dummy sneezed.

            The fly flew to Satin on a snowflake.

            A golden key opened a plaid door.

            The moon flowed through five golden apples.

            Thinkers thought they thought themselves silly.

            The vase held flowers of destiny.

            Strawberry snow fell upon three yellow mountains.

            An angel on a boat was smoking furiously.

            A lime turned itself into a lemon.

            An apple turned itself into a banana.

            The stars combined into delicious constellations.

            A rose bloomed in the fullness.

            Gold found its reflection in the silver moon.

            Her silken hair was bathed in sweat.

            Quietly in the night a poem.

            Ocean fish are golden.

            A fish swam brightly through the stars.

            A myth swam in the watery depths.

            Ami, my love for you is like a gem in the sun.

            Lonely and sad the letter arrived.

            I’m a poet. I know it. That's why I wrote it.

            In the shoe of a watchmaker stood a watchmaker.

            The watchmaker drank coffee from a slipper.

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            James Bybee, one of the founders of Caveat Lector, 
is a poet, playwright, and novelist living in northern 
California.