[stylist] expansion of the 40-word poem; poem with 40-word stanzas

[KajunCutie926 at aol.com]

This is sooooooo good..  see what happens?? they  grow on you and won't let 
you go..)  keep it up... I am tickled by  this..)
 
 
In a message dated 6/17/2011 2:07:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov writes:

Let me  here try something new, instead of a 40-word poem, I'm trying a 
longer poem  with 40-word stanza.

Please let me know what you think.

Shawn  Jacobson
Mathematical Statistician
Phone# (202)-475-8759
Fax#  (202)-485-0275

Wendover Interlude

In this place so isolate from  time
where midnight is like noon
if in the chaos of jackpot sounds
we  should walk though psychedelic lights
in search of illusive gold
then  way would surely lose our way
and aimlessly wander.

And so we sit  tethered to our mechines
by payer's cards and cords
in unnatural  symbiosis
the band plays "Free Bird" at our bidding
and drinks are  served at our request
to my temporary friend and I
we play on.

My  temporary friend stands to dance
I follow disregarding my cord
that  hooks me to my gaming beast
and thus leashed we tangle ourselves
in  loops of cord
and give it up for dancing on a leash
eludes our  skills.

Oh temporary friend how nice to share
this pleasure with you  till it is dispersed
by morning light as a morning fog
till only  recollection remains
of this night and of this place
where we came  together for a while.

For morn must come inexorably on
even here  where midnight is as noon
and bid us leave this gaming place and  slog
back to the mundane stations of our lives
to only recollect and  fondly smile
in precious stolen  moments.

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