something sticky on your shoe

There are options. Choices.
Day or winter. Round or silent.
A long tail or a short wait for a table
at a brand new restaurant.
Nothing is as it seems.
Everything is exactly as it seems.
Illusion is quite often the very thing
that is confronting a person in life.
These are not academic poems, friend.
These poor poems are more like
when a raccoon eats the dog food
t…