A Morbid Spoof, Post-Modern Poem by Ananta Madhavan

A Morbid Spoof, Post-Modern



What have you there, Sirrah?
The latest news,
And bad.


Who's dying now and where?
The dead are dying again,
For you.


What do you want me to do, Sirrah?
Where sackcloth and ashes and cry?
Die.


I have a right to live, Sirrah.
You have a right to
Dream.


What if I can't sleep, Sirrah?
Count a hundred sheep
Again.


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Thursday, December 8, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: insomnia,news,world conflicts
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
We have to find our own ways of avoiding cynicism
and negative forecasts of events and trends we observe
'in a world we never made'.
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