Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Social Distancing Poem

"I think; therefore iamb."
 -- René Descartes-Before-the-Horse 

"Old Nag" by Vincent Van Gogh
I know
     I am--
     (iamb)
     (iamb)
     (iamb)
     (iamb)
     (iamb)--

I'm a nag
     an' a pest--
     (anapest)
     (anapest)
     (anapest)
     (anapest)
     (anapest)

Six Feet--
     Small Feat--
     (trochee) 
     (trochee)
     (trochee
     (trochee)  
     (trochee

Between lines
     (or is it
     when we 
     stan-
     z'in lines
     or meet(er)
     on streets?)

Mask on face,
     snug and
     tactile
     (dactyl)
     (dactyl)
     (dactyl)
     (dactyl)  

May mean things do not get worse
     (Hope in
     four feet--
     that's sublime!--
     still reason
     has the right
     to rhyme)

Except perhaps for poets' verse.

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