One, Number

Do not good things come to those who wait?
Do they?
What good things?
Things.
Yes, but what things?
Important things?
What is it that you deem important?
Today of all days, what will it be?

Green,
emerald isles,
emerald smiles,
shamrocks,

and this was not butterflies or eulogies or a chance for him to ----

it was just goodness,

down here,
down in the crevices where they were accusing us of not keeping our keep,

until it showed,

Over here,

with my pot o gold