Appropriateness

Big Frank has been thinking (yeah, I know - look out!). We bundles of isolated awareness trudge through life with asperations of connections. The appropriate thing is to be connected, but there are so many choices to make. Among the situations we encounter there come times when it is expected that a connection should be made. So we have in the great U. S. of A. certain agreed upon responses, and we even have a business to lay it all out. Hence the next poem - Big Frank's first in quite some time:

The Appropriate Thing

Sympathetic shoppers
Carrying tunes in the heart,
Seek harmonious cards
That hit just the right mark.

Occasions in categories,
Planted orderly in aisles;
Each an attempt
To hit the right style.

Birthdays are joyful;
Setbacks a pain.
New babies delightful;
And sickness will wane.

“I know what you’re feeling;
This card is our link.”
There may be more to it
But such we won’t think.

To go there will take us
Outside of this store,
To fields full of weeds;
Uncultivated spore.