Unshakeable Resolve

Unshakeable resolve that’s firmly locked
in fantasy is often worse
than spinelessness that’s very often mocked
in prose or in polemic verse,
for people who are rubber-spined can bend,
correcting what they have admitted
to be gross errors with which they offend,
and with stiff neck have been committed.


(5/3/07/Inspired by a letter by Bonnie Hyken of Morristown, NJ in the NYT, May 3,2007))