Buying Slippers

from here on out you don't have to replace
anything you buy these slippers
will take you into the hospital
along with those pajamas long since
laid aside for the occasion and
whatever may catch your eye now and then
reminds you that you have quite enough
even more than enough
anything extra doesn't matter anymore
and you don't know what's not although
you might try out that sharp
little laptop anyway it might show
you something you've been altogether
unable to upload you might buy another
ream of that paper you always liked to see
so neatly stacked on the desk after all
who knows when that centonical play you've postponed forever
might not be jump-started by some stray phrase
you've picked up but then it occurs to you this handy old
pen of yours should suffice when you come to be
stuck in your last line of verse