I Got Lots Of Stuff
A poem by Chris Kleinfelter

I Got Lots Of Stuff

What about this stuff all around me
will make my day any better?
If I am drowning in plenty
would I be rescued
by one of the many?

I remember the rambling days
when home was on my back.
I could get anything by opening a flap.
As long I had it to get.
If I didn’t I wouldn’t fret.

Sometimes I worked hard.
Sometimes people were kind.
I didn’t mind when money was low
because what was given before
had a way of finding my door
and economy was practiced in a circle
taking the same route as love.

The thing I remember best from my youth
is the easy way that food and friendship flowed.
In the world we hoped to build
wanting was not a problem to be solved
if we could just remember
abundance is most useful
when it is shared.

About the Author:

Chris Kleinfelter Started writing poetry when returning to college at
age forty, 30 years ago. Moving from Pennsylvania to the Olympic
Peninsula expanded his efforts with publication in  Tidepools 2020,
2022, and 2023, Sixfold Poetry Summer 2020, and Tall Tales And True, an
anthology by Olympic Peninsula Authors. When not writing poetry Chris is
a semiretired cabinetmaker working on wood carving and a variety of
creative arts.
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