Royal Tales

A Poem of Mine Making Fun of Itself

My word choice and voice aren't terribly fine,
I usually misjudge the length of a line.
I flail a lot. Sometimes I recover,
cast lines that can linger, and can hover
but soon bounce around some similar sounds
then give up, explode in commas, break, stress,
enjamb. Enjamb! Then make light of the mess
by falling plainly back to Romance grounds
reserving you, the reader, table ten
(for two!) at Exquisite Le Bernardin;
Whisking us off on my personal jet
for dinner after Opera at the Met.
Then, though you've been waiting the entire time,
I leave you two, dry, unheroic lines.