EPISODE 18: 'Tis a Puzzlement (A poem not about beer!)

EPISODE 18

'Tis a Puzzlement

 

I was talking to a woman; about beer, of course.  "I guess beer is your hobby," she said.

 

"My hobby, my passion," I agreed. "I even write Shakespearean sonnets about beer."

 

"Well, then it is a good thing that you have a hobby that lends itself to poetry," she said. "My hobby is putting together jigsaw puzzles. And let's face it, you couldn't possibly write a sonnet about jigsaw puzzles."

 

To which I replied, "Challenge… Accepted!"

 

Jigsaw

 

A photograph, fragmented into shards

Their sculpted shapes suggesting keys and locks

Is shuffled, like a giant deck of cards

And dumped, without respect, into a box

 

Confronted with this chaos of cardboard

One longs to think of something one can do

So that the primal image is restored

(The picture on the box provides a clue)

 

Painstakingly each piece is now combined

Each notch with corresponding tab is filled

With hours of effort one at last will find

An illustration recognizable

 

Feel pride when taking puzzles from your shelf

For thus we vanquish Entropy itself!