11-16-2023, 11:23 PM
Natural Disaster (A Plague of Trolls)
A wise man said, though smiling as he wrote,
majestic law forbids both rich and poor
to sleep beneath a bridge. He did not say
in proto-socialism why that law
should be.
Now lately law, discarding majesty,
permits the poor, deranged and drugged to sleep
and live beneath its vital viaducts
where quantities of flammables are stored
for rent.
Not once but twice so far, foreseeably,
a major bridge has fallen, torched, collapsed
from arson by the trolls whom absent law
has fostered. What could be more natural
than that?
A wise man said, though smiling as he wrote,
majestic law forbids both rich and poor
to sleep beneath a bridge. He did not say
in proto-socialism why that law
should be.
Now lately law, discarding majesty,
permits the poor, deranged and drugged to sleep
and live beneath its vital viaducts
where quantities of flammables are stored
for rent.
Not once but twice so far, foreseeably,
a major bridge has fallen, torched, collapsed
from arson by the trolls whom absent law
has fostered. What could be more natural
than that?
Non-practicing atheist