Today's poem is by John Surowiecki

Invective against Swans
       

Where we once raised our voices against a war,
        where children—the dukes of ducks and queens
        of butterflies—once slept on blankets stuck
like stamps on an envelope of lawn,
we welcome back all the old Lohengrins

who go down to the sea in Swan Boats,
        catamarans in diarrheal water, itching for a fight.
        There's still time, boys: take the Green Line.
Plenty of souls to save and wrongs to right
and grails on sale at Crate & Barrel.

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Copyright © 2023 John Surowiecki All rights reserved
from The Place of the Solitaires
Wolfson Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission