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R.S.V.P.

My reply to Shel Silverstein's Invitation

I am a dreamer.
I wish and I lie.

I have quite a few hopes
but thousands more prayers.

I buy
baked beans
pinto beans
navy beans
blue beans
garbanzo beans
and green beans.

But I never got a ladder stalk out of any of them.

I still might;
I have a tendency
to throw them out the window
when life is particularly boring.

I pretend I'm a poet.
I pretend I'm a friend.
I pretend God is my all.
I pretend to know what I'm doing.
Is that enough pretending for you?
I can list more.

My I warm my hands by your fire?
I'll watch you with the flax-
you with your golden-story fingers-
Will you give me spinning wheel lessons?