The Future Full of Hope
"Every silver lining has a cloud."
-- the Reality on Earth
* * *
How vexing each new bother I yet stomached this past year,
each weekend running out of nuts, potato chips, and beer,
the earthquake, fire, hurricane, tsunami, flood, mudslide,
rape, war, enslavement, torture, rude behavior, genocide,
malaria, starvation, STDs up the wazoo,
new flus anew, and cancers (one a badass bugaboo)
till afterwards I managed somehow still to hit a snag,
espying on the toe I stubbed a teensy, weensy tag --
since half the planet's population yearly live to thrive
as half to forty years of age fail yearly to survive.
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
the Pain of life's nonstop Horrors untold
a revolving helios rhyme menippean satire on
the paradise of countless fools full of hope
january, 2023 -- the romantic yet confident about
his own future,
naturally still of paramount importance
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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