Men of Mica

Join me! Leave
the dullards who insist
on questing after
dull grey lumps.

Leave them to sieve
till kingdom come, for
our prize shines
like a constellation!

Not worth a pip, it's true,
but who can buy
so glittering a view?

Like Scrabble words
that yield a harvest
not of points
but syllables and twists,

our treasure LOOKS
like bloody treasure!

Needs no toil
to buff it up for some
rich spinster's sister's niece's newborn gremlin's
christening cup!

Let call across
the Western coast
to pyrite brothers -
bring your haul!
If no-one else believes
it's gold,
then we don't want gold after all!

Yes! It's mica over silver,
that most playful mineral!