While you're waiting for me, a poem by Marcus Bales

Thank you, Marcus. Guilty as charged. Stay tuned.

Villanelle: Waiting for Hungry

by Marcus Bales 

"I will write here every day, and there will be only one excuse for not blogging, and that will be writing poetry" – David Weinstock, http://waitingforhungry.blogspot.com/2011/09/sliver-time.html

David promised he would speak

A little every single day

But we've been waiting for a week.

He'll probably say I've got some cheek

To chide him like a child this way:

David promised he would speak.

His backlog's big -- a little tweak

Of something old would be okay

Since we've been waiting for a week.

I know he isn't really meek:

He's slashed me like a limp fillet,

When David promised he would speak.

I hope he's on a writing streak,

And too intent for mere display --

But we've been waiting for a week!

Perhaps there'll be a little leak

On Facebook -- we can only pray,

Since David promised he would speak.

Our present prospects still seem bleak:

After all, he gets no pay;

But David promised he would speak --

And we've been waiting for a week.