Another day, another protest; who can count them all
This one in Vicenza, Italy, near a jewelry mall
Where Israeli exhibitors dared to show their faces
Trying to attract buyers in public, of all places…
Pro-Palestine marchers turned aggressive, then violent
But amazingly, Vicenza’s mayor did not remain silent
He stated that ‘It is a contradiction in terms to demonstrate
for a cease-fire and peace through means that are violent.’
I say, unequivocally, after weighing the evidence
We’ve discovered a mayor who exhibits common sense
The breeze cool and refreshing
colors paled pastel exhibitors
lipstick pinks, buttered yellows, creamy peach,
alabaster whites, orange tangerine, wintery blues;
August cools ratcheting down
the once oppressive heat
relief, respite, balming appeasement,
comforting solace and escape
readying flesh and bone
for autumn colors to return
burnished bronze, pumpkin melons, candy corn mix,
bittersweet crimson corals, mustard green cornsilk;
roan toasted grasses,
ready for winter sleep
dancing in ivory discotheque
escape to renewal and rebirth
as August nears the end.
They are packaged neatly in this form for you
Just so you know I disdain it, this form you choose
Forever keeps me guessing at how I'll lose
Guess on says you, guess again says I, cause
Weakness betrays this poet, and it betrays the
Exhibitors of kindness. I see your weakness
Punctuated at the end of a sentence.
Slays a dragon and steals the treasure to repent,
That's what this warrior did, i'll never conform
To your form the way you'd like. Devil may
Come a nockin on yer door dear though if
Ya strike. Strike me down with your disdain
But I'll come back and I'll always complain.
I disdain your little form, and at last I punctuate this with a storm!
For is it not the antithesis of the way I feel?
This poem will refuse to relocate itself, but It will infuse itself in your memory' in the hopes that you will find it very, very, very grammatically incorrect;
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