How to Write The Sustainable Poem

by Miriam N. Kotzin

Of course you’ll want to write in free
   verse. Decry the rising tide,
but scandalize the bourgeoisie
   with your naughty thoughts implied
and then revealed by simile
   and metaphor:  Jekyll, Hyde.

But scandalize the bourgeoisie
     with your naughty thoughts implied
by clever phallic imagery
   (pines and windmills);  you’ve denied
and then revealed by simile
   and metaphor:  Jekyll, Hyde.

By clever phallic imagery
   (pines and windmills)  you’ve denied
all hope of passing for PC:
   what you’ve dreamt you’ve pushed aside
and then revealed by simile
   and metaphor: Jekyll, Hyde.
 
All hope of passing for PC?
   What you’ve dreamt you’ve pushed aside?
Just praise sustainability
   and keep your margins wide
and then revealed by simile
   and metaphor:  Jekyll, Hyde.

 

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