POETRY

Pearls can be Lovely or Not

April 15, 2019

Pearls on Bigots

written to honor the men of NH legislature

who thought it cute to pretend to clutch

their pearls​​ 

 

hate is such a bad look

even when you add​​ 

a string of pearls

so benign and round

no hard edges

no cutting points

and yet, even they​​ 

cannot​​ upstage

the​​ robe

of fear and loathing

that they wear​​ so

maybe next year

try to add some pumps,

a nice shade of white

to go with the pearls

or you could try a​​ 

pill-box hat with​​ 

lace, yes definitely lace

but an expensive variety for

it is hard to cover up

the paranoid inadequacies

of small men.

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