If It Ain’t Broke
another late afternoon sun
another early start to
another long night of drinking
and
you would think by now
after so many years
of me doing this same thing
over and over again
that somehow
I would have managed
to have come up with
something new
but as I once heard
someone say or
maybe
I read it somewhere
if it ain’t broke
then don’t try to fix it
so I open another bottle
and
pour myself another glass
before leaning back
in my chair
and
watching the light
outside the window
slowly fade to black
James Babbs has been writing for most of his life but he still manages to learn new things. He
has written hundreds of poems and a few short stories and has even had a few of them published.
More recently James has been indulging in writing haiku with a certain amount of success. He
still thinks about writing a novel someday but that just seems like an awful lot of words.
