From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxj!mhuxv!burl!sb1!ll1!ihldt!ihnp4!ihuxv!portegys Newsgroups: net.poems Title: Filling a bucket Article-I.D.: ihuxv.427 Posted: Tue Jan 11 21:43:10 1983 Received: Thu Jan 13 06:47:45 1983 Reply-To: portegys@ihuxv.UUCP (Tom Portegys) Filling a bucket I filled a bucket Not long ago. In a rush, I needed that bucket fast. It was a single letter In a novel I had planned. It was a draft of air In a windstorm I was stirring. It had no right to take so LONG to fill. Halfway full I knew it would never finish. A fiendish illusion had grown real: Water flowed up into the faucet to confound me. It splashed and roiled merrily on, But got no fuller. It was playing a game - It would be no one's thoughtless pawn; No one's fool. And down deep in that well Those laughing liquid curtains fell, So I propped me up on my elbows And watched it fill. Tom Portegys, BTL IH, ...ihuxv!portegys