Quote:

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Trouble














Photo by RP Thomas



Trouble in Talent

In April I shall shave
my  beard, Tex said, 
and in May I shall 
move into town.

Tex looked outside
at the black clouds
circling above Talent
like a murder of crows.

First, I am too old
to be your cuckold;
and you, Lizzie
DeLay, are too cold.

Lizzie sat in her chair
with her hair down,
her bold countenance
drawn low that day.

The wag Ted later said,
through the gloom of Tex’s
Tavern, love is doomed;
hate always more truthful.

If you want proof, look 
around; Lizzie’s feet are well
off the ground, and Big Mike
has swallowed a spoonful.


TS

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