Cemetery Keys
for J. & L. Callender

people say
our city’s a wasteland
our 700 islands
cultural deserts

not so for Lee
when I want culture, says he,
I sit at the piano

similarly so for who,
with fingertips, write poetry
or for who reads braille


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
6:17 p.m. 09.12.07