CHARLES

CHARLES

wanting the dream life
of a poet

    Charlie L
put his faith in Spinoza

write with determination
and thd Universe
will determine

the world will
       find its way and
death will come middle –
aged

     find him
at the poverty shelter

under his pillow, big
as a gong,
    the poetry medal
he once won

not
   by a lomg shot tragic, nowhere
near the world’s greatest

not even
       an also ran, but
      despite myself

                        I care