Bait Poem by Cheyenne Price

dangle your wisdom in front of our faces
hopefully we'll all be children
greedily reaching for something
we not yet possess, but painfully need

mask your knowledge to be a pot of gold
hopefully we'll all be leprechauns
dashing just to grasp the tokens
we hold higher than any creator

bind your love to a hook and cast it to the hateful sea
hopefully we'll all be idiots
knowing how easy life is underwater
and think it's actually a worm

I remain unconvinced we even know the difference
hopefully we'll all be awakened


4/4/07