Metaphor Life

I had a metaphor
For life is like a basketball
Or life is like a stock portfolio
Life is like 2.5 APR financing
Or quarterly profits
Life is not like a falling autumn leaf
Not a shooting star
Life is a descent into the maelstrom
A walk on the moon
A poetry reading
Like a slamming door
Broken window
Slip on the ice
Life is not like Mt. St. Helens
Life is more like a ghost, a donut
Like a slashed tire, a watermelon, a piano
Life is like an essay test, a dram,
An ounce of pleasure in a sea of pain
Life is feedback hogwash smoke well-done
Life is missing, fetid, symbolic
Life is not whirling, encoded, beige
Wet, laconic, serene
Not fantastic, dubious, illustrated
Life is like death, October, the Fourth of July
Life is not like willow, trout or eyeball
For what is life?

Mike Hill