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August 16, 2021
Sonnet: When the Better Angels Go Postal
By John Hawkins
Sonnet: When the Better Angels Go Postal. Always with the revenge. The daily sonnet ponders and wonders why. Why can't New Man and the Sauruses get along?
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Sonnet: When the Better Angels Go Postal
by John Kendall Hawkins
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If the angel of my better nature
ever shows up in time to save my ass
may it be Quixote or Mama Cass
singing sentimental nomenclature
Please, I want some more or O Sole Mio!
May he or she skip the formalities
and renounce the ledger totalities
and dance the tarantella with brio.
But now as each day passes sullenly,
I've lost my faith in angels, darkness hies
and I must hither toward unlit skies
scrubbed like the Sistine freed of graffiti.
There's a brave New Man up ahead loomin' --
a Seinfeldsaurus screech: Hello, Newman!
John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.