Say Cheese

The Country
by Billy Collins

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight...           
Post from Karen Edmisten

....and if you found the matches at the edge of town near opium dens...whoooooooo.....look out!  The fat lady sang:  "We can't let a good crisis go to waste, now caaaaaaaan we?"
Say Cheese
With lots of teeth
Just my 'good' side...fella
To stoke my fire!
Kinda reminds me of Coleridge's dream of 'third heaven'...ahemmmm....of course, he admitted he had enjoyed his opium before he attended the banquet where he announced his 'grand dream'...