The Day of The Drone

This Day is growing for the serving drones;

The time of empty homes and worry stones.

Apollo’s ember now burns here colder,

Ragged by Hephaestus’ icy hammer

Humanity’s renowned virtue belies Hope,

Vanity, ousted by a crueler note.

Rung from the un-tuned Bell Tower,

And hung from gallows in the Arty Bower!

Death’s gentle irony affixed pleasure—

Let the Meek take the lead measure;

The hive is ridden of plastic followers,

The Queen has died; the nest is hollow-er.

A Day At The Circus

Oh! What a glorious day at the circus!

Stupendous, Grand, Enchanting, Brilliant!

Oh, the Acts and the Elephants near us,

Trapeze, in the Topaz, and Militant;

I say, and the fire-eaters and the freaks,

In this carnival, so stripped for tickets,

And tips, what ornate displays of Neat;

The jugglers, and the dragon-mouthed midgets,

I saw the Acrobats and the trained monkeys;

Oh! What an illusion so devoid o’ certainty,

And the candle-whip, and tight-rope walkers;

The Clown, in the end, was the Ring-Master!

T’was awesome and incredibly intrinsic,

The appeased sight of this catty linguistic;

From behind this cage, the whip and the Stool,

“Get the lion’s chain ready, you Fool!”

I still have my performance left to do,

I still have my performance left to do…

I was there THAT day

I was there THAT day,
And many a penny spent I;
I was there that day,
And too little a care gave I:

Oh, what fool be paid,
And Me that has paid it,
They raved, "Oh! What feast be laid,"
Not me, but my penny which had Ate it—

Or of it that came—
And with the Wine that had washed it,
A Table of Fame,
A Beast, my Penny, did squash it;

I, the fool did play—
A lone receipt paid it—
Anon, with those eats the Feast did lay,
Not Me, but t'was my Quarter that saved it!

I was there that day,
When the world Crumbled;
That day I was there,
When the world Stumbled;

I was there that day,
(That day I was there),
I was there THAT day—
The day I wasnt there at all...

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