diff --git a/content/post/poetry/2021-01-06-penguins.md b/content/post/poetry/2021-01-06-penguins.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf8ee52 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/poetry/2021-01-06-penguins.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +type: post +date: 2021-01-06 +title: Penguins +categories: +- Poem +tags: +- Death +- Grief +--- + +Too many suits move in too many lines. +They circle banquet tables, hawk-eyed, +hunting crudites, canapés, bruscheta. +Fingers ferry food --- fish, perhaps --- finding +slack-jawed mouths already open, +squawking at wayward children +or bemoaning The Market, +whatever that may be. +At some point, who cares how long ago, +death surfaced, claimed one, submerged again. +Who knows how well they knew him, +their backs turned, studiously +deciding that he is no longer of them? +one could never guess. +We can say his suit was very fine, perhaps, +that the room is tastefully furnished, +the coffin silver, the bar, open, +quite good, and none of them are drunk yet, +or at least none look it. +"Good man, good man," they mutter, +doing all they can to convince each other +through well-rehearsed performances, +that this must be the case. +The silently bereaved already sit graveside.