Friday January 6, 2023; 7:35 PM EST
- I've been tinkering with this one off and on for a couple of weeks. I may keep revising, I don't know. I don't have a title yet. The six-line rhyming form comes from Auden's tiny masterpiece, Epitaph on a Tyrant, which packs more punch into the final two lines than most poems manage in a dozen.#
- Lies of the ignorant overlords, the clowns,
their fantasies and spreadsheets, they’ve
forgotten who they pledged once to serve.
Street-corner children in disjointed lives,
like trees untended in unimproved towns,
school dismal, toys just sticks and knives. #