Smoke Also Floats

there’s no light

to hide your light under

a bushel basket

if you’ve become the basket

filled with smoke from

when the light went out

a kind of soul

basket case is what

they called the soldiers

in the first world war

who lost all four limbs

and couldn’t get around

now it’s a useless

person or one

that can’t cope

and a cope is a cloak

like a cape or

what you try to do

when you’ve lost hope

but it comes

from the latin word for hood

or a cap for your head

like a hat or a cover

like a lid for a basket

for a bushel

of smoke

from a light

that went out

why did the light go out

no cope