Caveat: Quatrain #39

(Poem #236 on new numbering scheme)

"My ego trumps my neighbor's needs,"
the patriot believes,
sincere, perhaps (in fact, malign)
but to those ends, deceives.

– a quatrain in ballad meter.

One comment

  1. Wendy Miller

    Hah! Concise and precise! I like it. Can I write it on a postcard and send it to my Roos and senators and the White House? Of course I will give you credit (unless you don’t want me To!)

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