A cup
is always weakest at the handle
A cup is not a bouncing ball
A cup is a physically handicapped teapot

A cup is not the best seat in the house
A cup is half a bra
A cup is not an anorexic toilet bowl

A cup is an upwardly mobile mug
A cup is not prepared to take the rap
about that slip
twixt it
and the lip

A cup is the runt of the Crockery Family
A cup is not considering elopement with the dish (or the spoon)

A cup is far from happy when it runneth over
A cup is not enough for the caffeine addict.

A cup is a glass unclear
of its purpose


© rob walker 2011


First published in Illya’s Honey (US)
Dallas Poets Community
Vol 18, No. 2 ISSN 1527-7798
(Spring/ Summer 2012)