Poems
by KJ Hannah
Greenberg
Gloze
When making excuses for choices, it’s best not to stumble.
Consider that fashioning resilient PR packages (containing cushioning effects)
Requires small amounts of social scansion, not counting a jot of stultifying words.
In cases where dignity is lacking, special merit’s assigned to mneme,
Logos, and phone. Natural law, i.e., the strictures of the universe, tends to skip
Fairness. On balance, folks acquire disparate amounts of gain by riving governments.
In the true sense of signs and symbols, rhetoric discards larger cultural
Development, creates epigenetics, or else makes doxing easy as skipping stones.
Figure out, metaprinciples, more often than not, are both synchronic and diachronic.
When daubing ideologies across cultures, interdisciplinary approaches work.
Repetition undergirds non-truth, while, concurrently, what’s lost “in translation”
Applies life’s tautology (among stages of hibernation & estivation, sleep sweetens.)
A Satire of Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday”
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a desert bare.
My heart is like an apple tree,
Shedding its bark without a care.
My heart is like a rainbow shell
Hiding the snail ruining the tree.
My heart is sadder than all these
Because my love has come to me.
Construct me a dais of faux rags
Hang it with foul, brackish dyes
Carve it in weeds & lizards’ tongues
And serpents with blood-red eyes
Work it with brown, splintered twigs,
In bleak mornings and darkened skies
Because the lowest point of my life
Has come, my love has come to me.
Impressionable Minds
Impressionable minds must be protected from crowds!
Consider how often acts of agents, performed senselessly,
Prevent our withstanding profuse vices, reduce critical thought.
If only the spread of education wrangled away dull assessments,
Compelled us to memorize truth, replaced personal agents with
Impersonal forces; we’d all over regard ideas as worthy
Objects of contemplation, again embrace cultural
Expressions of moral philosophy.
Unfortunately, principled behavior no long ranks
Among estimated goings-on. Further, sound intellect’s
No trophy midst social demarcations. We’ve an increasing
Number of barbarian comportments plus a dependency on media
Akin to slavery. Our prolixity maintains nothing like standards,
Concurrent with us disobeying nature and society.
Present achievements don’t mean success.
Prudence’s no longer normative.
