AL'S ADVICE (AS I REMEMBER IT)
for Lars Hundere
The expense of spirit is a waste of mojo.
It is imperative to invest that shit
wisely! Shun that heaving!
Skip to the dream.
There is no expenditure so grave
as that of mojo, and in all the world
there is no slighter return.
Need proof? Observe:
all wasters, parasites and drones—who knows
where such creatures in their goings glide?
What unheard-of appetites haunt their throats
and terrorize their loins?
Behold: their errands take them very far
from their treatments.
Thomas Crofts is from San Antonio, TX, and currently conducts his business in Johnson City, TN. His poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including The Texas Observer, Born Magazine, NonBinary Review, and The Southern Poetry Anthology, vols. VI: Tennessee, and VIII: Texas. Poems and drafts may be found at https://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/