Count Down From Ten Before You Speak


Under the spreading controversy,
I tweaked you and you tweaked me.
Together we created such a din
that our very home caved in.

Onto the street outside ensued
the argument loud without interlude.
We drew the neighbors to our sides
with all the hazards that implies
when others without regard for their own fate
absorbs another's biases and hate.

Too soon the very town did boil and
bubbled until the country side too spoiled
for a fight with more breadth and scope.
They even dragged in the Pope.

Across the channel the fight ensnared
the Frogs and Franks who both long shared,
animosities enough for all to last
till doomsday itself had passed.

The original cause and source of argument by now forgot,
as distracted we were by wars first shot.
Well, to make a long and familiar story short,
someone failed to install the button to abort,
the missiles that descended with hydra-head,
that would have made such piles of dead,
had not they all been burned to crisps.

Now lips there are in short supply
to tell the tale and expound on: WHY!!??
can't people keep their bloody noses out
of controversy they know nothing about and
leave to heal a festering sore?
But what's the point, they're nevermore.

Kelley Trezise



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