While wading in the water
caught a wet soft-bodied squid
took it home for dinner
but the evening was a damp squib
I don't think ink but due to
an unrequited one-way conversation
neither returned nor reciprocated
on my part quite the aberration
courtship was not to be
for as a voracious marine carnivore
I could not sate her hunger
as had insufficient albacore
therefore not a keeper
what's more a pet one cannot tame
next day all things considered and quite timely
'twas returned to the sea from whence she came
[Disclaimer: No Squid Were Harmed
in the Writing of this Poem®]
Part a
An English summer the climate norm
three fine days&a thunderstorm*
Part b
Plus ca change Plus c'est la meme
Net Zero remains a 'woke' political scheme
* Attributed to King George II circa 1700-( grandfather of the King who lost the American colonies)
I will create as I speak
with rimed spontaneity I'll seek
'Twixt male&female heaven sent
in a union of equivalents
With his 4.33 Cage opened a surrealist musical door
a short symphony needing no conductor or score
CLIMATE SQUIB
Here in temporate England it would be most strange
if each season (often each day) our climate did not change
If a pasquil lampoon is taken as an insult
try a squib to achieve a more adult result
threads
conjoined
in
improvised
directions
of
unexpected
echos
form
in
lines
of
particularly
shimmery
language
the
poetics
cry out
for
elucidation
of
the squib
...
slowly
& steadily
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