A Rational New Year's Resolution
or
Becoming an Antinatalist for the Ultimate Prevention of All Childhood
(1) Birth Defects (2) Diseases (3) Disasters Natural and Accidental
(4) Abuses and (5) Deaths
On New Year's Eve when tucking into bed,
Arthritis here, assisted by the brain,
The final chapter closes still unread,
And lowers yet the light for Neural Strain;
At midnight hours later they awake,
Disturbed again by all the ballyhoo
For eons causing worlds long past to quake
From toasts to but the similar ado;
Then mulling on the old year's kindred yelp
While fearing for the new year in their arms,
Each resolute resolves anew to help
By trying To Prevent All Needless Harms;
As in the dark and stillness of the room,
The Auld Lang Syne crawls yearly toward its doom.
January 3, 2022
Five New Year's Resolutions
List/Sonnet (English) Shakespearean)
L. Milton Hankins
Copyright © James Starkey III | Year Posted 2022
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