Perfect Poem

I’ll never write the perfect poem,

I’ve never ever tried.

“The eccentric is the basis of design” (WS)

and I’m eccentric to say the least.

Who is trying to achieve perfection 

besides bowlers, Olympic gymnasts

and the like?

There’s so much more, to me, in achieving

right where I am, not distracted by

achievement, here, with all it’s off colored jokes,

warts and all, textures and flavors delicious

and questionable, irritating and worse…

to me, perfection is things as they are.

I’m not nit picky but I do insist on proper

punctuation.

HA!