AVEC PLAISIR

AVEC PLAISIR

I accumulate
years

but what I did
accumulate
over those years

(would you
care for me to
bullet point it?)

well then,
      avec plaisir

starkness
thinness
attenuation

things I thought
as in the economic theory
mistakenly would
trickle
    down in torrents

but was
never favored a drop

too late now
to start scratching
for remedy, hunting
for redress

all
   banked and
pocketed, I am reliably
advised
    can rest assured

and where to now
everything
    end of the road with
closure of
all pathways

gates and fences
        not prepared to fall
in what is left of
my lifetime

only the ironies
remain, if
           you would like
me to
    show you in
what we still enjoy of
this window

it will be my sad sombre pleasure
to be performed
as quasi
ritual

avec plaisir.