The shimmer of image

invites any promise

your needs invent.

Like the heated

air over sun baked

roadway, illusion

drifts in quietly any

time -- How much

to buy into this

routine again?

Better by far

is to make such things for

fun, profit and

safety of mind.

Hold its shapeless

indefinite form til

its nature

reveals and melts

into cupped hands.

Then smile slyly, and

offer its dreamy substance

to the very next fool.