Too Cautionary

~ Taken

Way leads on to way,

Wrote the old poet

In his second-most

Famous poem. Too right.

One day a boy asked

To skip a math class.

The teacher warned him.

He skipped anyway,

A whole year. Next year,

He found math harder.

He took no more math.

As a man, he found

He wanted math and

Took evening classes.

A philosopher

Asked him why. He shrugged,

For fun. Years later

The philosopher

Wrote a reference

For him—I never

Saw anyone else

Take math just for fun.

The man ended up stuck

Trying to do math

The rest of his life.

~ Don’t Tell Anyone

Lee had a dream

In which he could

Tell stories well.

One of the tales

He’d told in dreams

Involved a bear

That hunters chased

Into the sky.

But in this dream,

He coughed up black

Blood and died once

The tale was done.

He told a friend

About the dream.

The friend laughed, then

Coughed something black.