The Favor
by Artie Moffa
Don't mention it
The favor that
I gladly gave,
The evening that
I helped you save.
Don't mention the Augean task
That I performed through once and then
Redoubled and performed again
For you; I thought you'd never ask
Or ask, but make requests best left to mortal men.
Think nothing of
Your music which
I had to lose,
My money which
I had to use.
Don't think of any small
expense
That I, in helping you, incurred
Through being helpful and absurd
Or any inconvenience
It caused; such as a stranger's shifty glance or
word.
No favor is too great
For you;
No line too long a wait
For you.
But if, in future times you
need
A favor, when your time has slipped
Away, and something can't be skipped
At all, I won't perform that deed
For you; our current scales
of who owes whom are tipped.
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