Champagne Lives

Photo © 2012 R. Burnett Baker

complete me. again 

salutations are waiting. 

goblet lives hold court

in unison expecting 

grandstand recognition: 

sports heros, intelligentsia, 

artistes, politicos, lovers, and 

cads; 

we have no time to 

inventory our import, yet 

waiting for the buzz is 

all the rage.  waiting for 

anything that fills 

secret voids 

is salutation enough 

for this stage. 

Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker