The Well Runs Dry

Couched in the

concept of a well,

(which supplied the water

for faded glory of "Glen Elm),"

my boyhood abode,

another metaphorical attempt

at writer's block - aid,

here attempting to reference

(former Leiper estate re: early

twentieth century demesne)

across avast tract, which bestrode

approximately a hundred

acres enshrined sanctuary,

(yet whittled down

to about a half dozen acres,

when Boyce Harris made purchase

circa February 28th 1968),

sans plethora paradise

of flora and

fauna once code

did ecologic niche,

now...long since transformed

into ticky tack vinyl city

servicing twenty first

 

century materialistic cushy

(on tushy) sedentary worker

dog tired to pen a ditty

(butta no mien

mean manual laborer,

neither grubby nor gritty)

propertied class i.e. bourgeoisie),

whence about a century gone by,

where wild woods would still

have been agreeable

to the ghost of Walter Mitty,

or John James Audubon

(born Jean Rabin;

April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851,

an American ornithologist,

naturalist, and painter),

who would pity

fully unleash torrential

tears, nor witty

countenance supposedly progress

this eighteenth year

since advent of second millennium

bench marked based on

start of common era

 

at expense, where

countless animals and plants veer

really didst vanish, ah swell

as a pond

attracting Canadian Geese

(they honked in

French), now...there

tis nary a trace

 

of former Currier

and Ives bucolic

scene, aye swear

not e'en a sparse copse pier

reed (and exclamation

point) argh near

re: zero vestige of vanished

rural expanse mere

lee cookie cutter

(look alike)

family dwellings brave

lee evicting, jack

knifing, and crave

vin lee over

laying pastoral

enclave iniquitous

(courtesy of Neilson, and flave

er flave Gambone

Brothers), rendered grave

bounty viz Anne

Xing Mother Nature's

brethren and cistern did pave

a successful accomplishment

measured by (Ole) standard

in parlance and accorded rave,

ving reviews, asper

a job welled (weld) done,

where only legally tendered

bucks fate didst save!