What Fascinates Me

How cool to sway naïves unaware, Cooler still, a man of ken fair, Even a wall were I persist, Not one— a half-wit puffed with air! How pundits are plagued with spite’s tide, Powerful with over-spilling pride, Green horns nigh uninitiated, Vexed, my verses had once decried. One may from a croc’s jaws get free, May sail across a maddened sea, Wrap a cobra around his neck, How hard to please one, fool that be! Not so hard to get oil from sand, Quench thirst off mirage in parched land, Even to fetch a rabbit’s horn, How hard to bring round a ham hand. What fascinates: world’s attitude, In other’s ill luck feeling good— Schadenfreude and a Freudian glee, How world’s today stuck with the crude! ___________________________________ Tongue-in-cheek |06.05.2022| Fascination and Awe Poetry Contest Sponsored by Jeff Kyser