Friday, October 02, 2020

mmmxxxiv

scrambled sonnet

we
ve breached the Shiite inflexibility
that you so heartedly snubbed, posing
our own Congress nearly a century of
barfing and wheezing. disrupted just to

spite the Sunni recalcitrance, our fathers
fried eggs of vengeance on SUV hoods.
nothing tastes better than a little suff
rage after a few buttered toasters and

a swift ’cane over Pontchartrain. fear
not, a constitution is in the works. we’ve
seen it coming. the national legislature
forecasts more hoodlums. loot now,

ere the marred negotiations take an
uptick, get downsized or aftershocked.