[New-Poetry] "Sonnet: Clouds of Knowing and Unknowing"

[Halvard Johnson]

Sonnet:  Clouds of Knowing and Unknowing

Expecting fathers and their favorers--long used to knowing
what to do, what not to do--consider medical evacuation
to be among their least attractive options. Familiarizing
ourselves with alternative travel plans might be wise to do.

Local laws and customs are no longer beneath contempt,
proper subjects only for writers and for travel agents
swimming against the tide of online reservation booking.

Handbooks of popular proverbs and sayings yield only
revisionist maxims such as “Don’t swap wooden nickels
in midstream” and “Necessity’s mother knows no laws.”

In the meanwhile, we were fiddling when we should have
been faddling. Promising stock options were allowed to drop.
Another of Peggy Lee’s sad songs. Her death was natural,
much to everyone’s relief. Not macht erfinderisch.



Hal

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