Patrician Magician Poem by John Sensele

Dine and wine for the sake of Jo and Mike
Slacken not no matter how black flak says
For the boys and their toys a balance they strike
As long as your gong and song determination sprays.

Dine and tend to Jo and Mike's vines and extend
Sciences of patience and tolerance for their sake
For in your hands lie pies that can't pretend
As long as diligence sings of futures that are at stake.

Dine and align processes in your life to decline
Efforts and sports that escort blankets of trinkets
To glory and a salary that ill will can't define
As long as throngs of wrong, oblong targets can't get markets.

Dine and assign lines of hope on book spines
Written by a mathematician and a statistician
To waylay delays and stays of execution on wrists and priests of vines
As long as Vietnam Congs don't assume a room patrician.