Magpie Tales 131: Bridging Reality

Under Windsor Bridge, 1912, by Adolphe Valette 

Shared by Tess Kincaid

delusion 


soot-coated dialogue, 
that invective political 
discourse providing 
fashionable moral certitude
for every open mind, 

is so fulfilling.  I am 
ashamed. 

ashamed of my willing 
participation in lauding 
the cobalt sky I 
witnessed today, (and 
many days previous) 

for it must be an anomaly: 

Orwell would not have 
me believe otherwise. 


Poem © 2012 R. Burnett Baker