Dolphins dodge the diamond-coated bores.
We are like the patient giggling as the dentist bores.
I want to see the lamb asleep on the lion’s paws,
the king who truly cares for us cads and boors.
Aren’t there enough for some new constellations?
Srsly, Orion – still chasing Diana and her boars?
Ghalib keeps trying to rhyme your slender fingers
as Cecil Rhodes schemes to overthrow the Boers.
At some point we’ll have to start listening to our hearts,
whether we ascribe to Einstein’s theory, or Neils Bohr’s.
My uncle, a medic in ‘Nam, never talked about it.
He’d come in from plowing the corn, quiet as Sir Bors.
Thor Bacon
Illustration: Claire Palmer
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