Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Under Wraps



Th’ live-with-today litany of loquacious lunacy is 
no elegy to the stars, ants maybe - and they are 
well ahead in that race; but there’s a need to be 
balanced instead of hunched in the trenches, an 
assurance we see more than woods for trees - if 
you get the drift, and move easy with the breeze 
even if there isn’t a zephyr to speak of lifting our 
spirits from ant-infested dungeons of despair

But we’ll give ‘em credit for being discrete - they 
admit they’re there but not in bludgeoning doors 
to pieces seeking tidbits; what’s more they don’t 
bite or infest - simply swarm and carry th’ goods 
away t’ wherever - besting as such our attempts 
at trying keep the place clean of temptation 

But a greater burden to understand is in seeing 
th’ clan carrying away corpses of their brethren; 
whichever way you interpret the act there’s that 
obvious connect we can wax effusively on, & in 
terms of our own creed, doff a hat, or napkin, to 
its efficacy in keeping their need under wraps  
© 16 March 2017, I. D. Carswell

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