A Poem by Stefanie Bennett
…In Spite of Monsanto & Dow Chemicals
Mon dieu! I did not expect to find you splayed out
On the recliner
Exuberant but bewailing
The new Great Recession’s turn
Around, land cheats, and
Government laxity
That’d make a penny squeal
Louder than
Bagged bobcats in midwinter.
‘Go easy’ was the best I could do.
‘Don’t forget
Lumbago flares when…’
You sprang upright, stormed
To the baby grand.
Bach’s “Sleepers Awake”
Set the dog yowling off-key.
Apparition you were! Yet how
I miss your state of grace.
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