"Is it Real?" by Ian Ganassi

She thought it had something
To do with Freud.

Granted it did,
Does that make
The music “too intellectual?”

You would have to ask a sitting
Or hanging judge.

Marcus Aurelius was a bit neurotic
In the Meditations; periodically correcting himself

In a hysterical manner (granted it was supposedly
Only written for himself).
Seriously, it would be interesting to stage,
But right now, everything is out of season,

Especially the fruit.
I am sitting in a room, he said,
On Memorex (if you remember that).
It had the “necessary whiff of the fraudulent”

Presumably, perhaps.

"Why do you sit there looking
like an envelope without
Any address on it?”

“Doesn’t ‘whiskey’ sound
So much more colorful than ‘booze,’” he asked,
In an innocent tone.

Is this too many questions?
And to hell with the Jive Authority.

“Have you seen my servant Job?”

We’ve got a timeline, anyway,
Even when to consider the Karaoke machine
In the scale of the heist.

And sincerity has nothing to do
With joining the search party.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.