cashmere wool coats
      are not in style right now
but perhaps if you waited until
   the cashmeres returned

have to trudge up and down stairs
now since moving out of one
room and into another
thinking to fix up the old room
   the house creaks and echoes
even though most wood is new

once in awhile,
     our senses are dampened,
crying for musical things
   reap small rewards
Confucius may have said that