Sitting In Paradise[revised] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

[ORIGINAL: ]

Back from the shop armed with chocolate bars,
keeping my feet cool by using my frozen water
bottle as a footstool, having festooned my CPU
with silver glitter on white scarves, admiring the
new green box in which I keep coffee and tea

The green miniature snake and sea-horse perched
on my printer, a blue tray closing the hole to the
next workstation, white flowers and pearls on the
black cardboard boxes which close me off from
the passage -this sounds like a boudoir- no matter

I’m really aiming for the look of a bazaar - THIS
sounds like Vogon poetry - Douglas Adams would
have a field day ripping this apart - a sequined Alice
band around the delicate stem of my computer screen,
also pasted a transparent plastic flower and snowflake

On my CPU, a purple cover below the white paper in
front of me, two cloths on my desk, brown and blue -
to wipe my hands as I eat the best chocolate there is,
now I’m sitting in paradise…