Friday, October 18, 2024

The Gopher

 Conflating tumors out of cysts

Debating rumors with ready lists

Its all the truth, he still insists


Tired tropes in yellowed incisors

he burrows through the earth

No need of counsel or advisors

he's quite certain of his worth


Parchments declare he is ever right

and in that subterranean light

never dissected to see what they mean

or measured to any expectation

Answers only with empty recitation

somehow never quite what they seem

Some litany chanted, given by rote

as he shakes off the dirt from his coat

Smugly he retreats to his lair

to the comfort of his own fume

Hes sucking up all the air

of a stale and stifling room

He will never capitulate

'cause now hes a Yorkshire Puddin'

and I will firmly stipulate

Aye, hes for sure a Goodwin

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