Nimble Nerd Poem by John Sensele

Douse fires on spires
Hired by tired tutors and sassy suitors
Who spread scores of blue briars

Whose thin thorns trade trinkets with Hussein Sadam
Ebony as botany
Taught twice termly by madam
Twiggy who turns and burns any

Plant page into a marvel that travels
From her blackboard to a bright brain
That's eager to figure out rigours and veils
In which succulent secrets in the main

Metamorphose a mundane medulla oblongata
Into a nimble nerd
Who collects and collates aces that utter
A successful story never before heard.