Old broken words in spineless protection
At best
Is dimly Lit

Audience remains
Un-entertained
By elderly expressions that linger
Stuck to a page
Failing to age like fine wine

Unable to follow Yeats lead
Or like the gist of
Not the tedium that is Shakespeare

Contemporary Constituents
Live on tried and true expressions
When fresh words are all around
To be understood by the subsequent generation

Those in charge of the wordy world
Blinded by advanced degrees
Unable to see
A Charles Chaim Wax
A Jake Hassler
A Mary Nagy
In their time

Egotistic Language lords
Spin silk
From a sow’s ear
Eager that with ears taken
Eyes wont open to the fact
They want the swine to think its pearls

Apparently
Snobs with caviar lipstick
Only truly know what is art

Numb audience
Dumbly decide
To what is seen and heard
The genuine cant be seen by the unauthentic
Too busy stringing their cultured pearls on fools gold thread

Wanda Swim Strunk

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