Put it Away

I'd rather leave all
those unfinished novels 
--never afraid to start
I fear one day the story will end
so I'll stop where Sue finds her babies 
from the closet hooks hanging 
why weren't they more like
the neighbor children? smoking
strutting, shirts off, confident
two cocks and a hen in a barnyard
you take away my God
and tell me to use the Claude Glass!
and let me learn from Wile E. Coyote
his example of perseverance
A for effort, model Sisyphus
put it away for wise crastinus,
let be Aner Agathos,
sipping cappucino, distracted 
or concentrating on
(though noon auctoritee) 
his own thoughts and feelings