I’d like to say a word or two before I go to bed,
and maybe I would write them down if they were in my head,
but since they’re not, I haven’t got a lot of words to write,
and so, instead of writing them, I’ll simply say, “Good night.”

Ken Gosse usually writes whimsical, rhymed verse. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, later in Pure Slush, Home Planet News, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillwords, and many others. Raised in Chicago suburbs, now retired, he and his wife live in Mesa, AZ, with rescue dogs and cats.