THREE

Apparently the scammers prefer to

utilize an aggressive “no holds barred,”

“no frivolous, or honest introductions”

approach in their line of endeavor.

At least that’s what they’ve

told me. Thus, here and now,

within Three’s first stanza, I

must inform you that I’m only

writing what they tell me to.

And, as the poet “behind” these

words, I know not what

prompted them, or to

what their title refers.

And Three of Three Point

Nine M you’ll need to explain

yourself in three stanzas.

This is the scammers’ mandate,

despite the fact that you may

have many interpretations. But

to me your allusion to the fact

that three persons live

within one God affords

great comfort in a world

of dreadful sorrows and

time continually passing

And maybe, had many more

a belief in the realness

of an existence eternal,

there wouldn’t be so many

acts of terror perpetrated

against innocents in the

existence temporal

                                                            POINT

But isn’t time’s continual

passage highlighted in each

human’s existence?

And isn’t this especially

noticeable at points of

change in one’s life when

one actually begins to

become a different mortal?

And the phrase “begins to

become” as used in the

previous stanza is awkward

to be sure; yet I’m thinking

was utilized as a symbol

for the way in which points

of change, or stages in one’s

life are destined to occur

And at points of change, doesn’t

one invariably have no recourse

but to look first inward

at oneself, and then outward

to seek the help

of one’s God initially

and one’s friends secondarily?

                                                            NINE

Nine of Three

Point Nine M, just as

your namesake comrade Three

required three stanzas in its

presentation, so will you, for

propriety’s sake, require nine

Thus, here are offered

nine stanzas in

acceptance of time’s passage,

as stipulated by the poet.

He informing all who read this

of his having been warned that

he’s but a writer of the

whims of scammers

And the poet was likewise

warned that tales one

may hear or speak may

sometimes tail off and

denigrate the hearer or speaker

Still, perhaps it sometimes

bodes well for one to

share some of temptation’s

trifles, yet to not be

tainted by a touch of

timidity, derived perhaps

from a remainder of

guilt, tempered by the

knowledge that one didn’t

really know if one should

feel guilt or not

But isn’t it through one’s

outward roles that society

as a whole first comes to

know one? And wasn’t it

through supposedly verifiable

deeds that convention judged

one? And did it really matter

whether or not one had always

tried to say and do what

seemed to be necessary to

say and do just then?

But the poet has been

instructed to communicate

that Nine’s most enduring

wish is that praise be

granted to those who

routinely overcome odds great

and small in their effort

to remain productive

And thus, in a world

known to be constrained

by mistakes, lies, and evil

actions, who can really

refute the appropriateness

of Nine’s congratulatory note?

Oh, but with so many

proofs of that appropriateness

available, space limits the

poet to only that one which

Nine feels to be the

greatest of them all

And here’s Nine’s greatest

of them all:  No matter how

far afield one may have

strayed, and no matter how

many years have passed,

can not one start all over again?

                                                            M

In these words the scammers

designate M as a MIRAGE,

and determine its message

as unfit in poetry

Thus will the real M

supposedly appear later

in a prose format; yet,

remember, the poet can’t promise

that as certain. This

poetic M may actually

convey the maximum meaning

that the thirteenth

letter may be capable

of messaging to the

masses in this medium; or,

will a different M appear

to represent an embodiment of

evil, and a desire to

continue a quest for

gain ill-gotten?