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Monday, October 8, 2018

"It happens each election cycle..." October Surprise: An Inevitability

It happens each election cycle:
some event so potent psychol-
ogic’lly it sways the unde-
cideds. stuff they’re sure of Monday
sounds like nonsense come the weekend –
strongly held beliefs now reek and
truth’s no longer truth but lies:
October’s here! Surprise, surprise!

Look Who's Talking: A Prose Poem in Four Brief Scenes

Exterior. A dusky wood. Night.  Middle-aged writer Dante Alighieri  avoids a trio of hungry beasts with  aid  from the Roman poet Virgil. Th...