Tacitus In Verse
All Those Lonely People
Everybody stars
in somebody’s fantasies
but they’ll likely never know
unless somebody tells them.
UN-AMERICAN? EXCUSE ME?
Though we disagree
About this country’s problems
And about the solutions
We both remain patriots!
Homo Hedera Helix
There’s one rakish attribute
Those Ivy Leaguers share
With the floral hallowers
Of their ancient, sacred halls…
They’re both invasive species.
Always The Way
Insistent demands
Seem to be
The currency
Changing hands
This Father’s Day.
Full Measures
Can any yardstick
Take the measure of a man
Without finding shortcomings?
~
Must those whom we laude
Be unblemished specimens?
Can’t we see them, worts and all?
The Trouble With Time Travel
It’s funny how a sudden smell
Carries us cross time and space
To a person and a place
Grateful we’ve not forgotten.
~
Sadly, though, it’s also true
That same scent can carry you
To a place that’s best forgot
Sparking ancient pain as well.
Florida Man…
A fat, bald, white guy
sporting third degree sunburn,
Speedos, and Ray-bans
and driving his Jag:
Donald Trump for President
twenty twenty four.
Quiet Cacophony
There’s nothing quite like
the sound those cicadas make
crunching under foot.
Work The Soil, Together.
Make us a garden
nurtured and cultivated
for joy, not just for harvest,
not a copper vein
to be abandoned, a blight,
drained and despoiled.
Ancient Wisdom
A lesson well learned,
No matter how painfully,
Is never wasted.
Anodyne Applied
Dawn’s fury displaced
by a walk among the blooms.
Harmony restored.
Long Unspoken Fury
How was it my fault,
Dad,
When those dime store Wallabees
Melted through the furnace grate?
How you always chided me
When I said I was afraid,
“Don’t be such a fraidy cat.”
Now you stand and seethe, enraged
Learning what I always know.
Floor grates lead to misery
And premature, stinky, deaths
For green plastic army men
And your cheap-ass knock-off shoes!
Katauta 9 Apr 2021
Out there, on that beam,
Basking in the noonday sun;
With fathomless depths below.
– Turtles Atop…
