"Do I Have Opinions?" [by Molly Arden]

 Yes!

I believe in Romeo, as Juliet said

when she lay in the coffin pretending to be dead.

That Tonto is no good, said the ambush chief

and I, guzzling gas, can get no relief.

The father figure who looked like Charlie Chan

walked like Charlie Chaplin when he kicked the can.

 

Lindsay Lohan is an also-ran, 

not an alloy but a metal impure,

and the disease will have no cure

when my reasoning, sound but obsolete as bonnets,

has gone the way of Sir Thomas Wyatt's sonnets.

 

Because you can't strut your stuff

when you're old and gray

and there isn't time enough,

there'll be some changes made

beside the hemlock tree today

in the sweetness of the shade.

 

So I say yes, and I pray

for a change of heart or in the weather

or the bread and butter eaten by Werther

who has to decide whether

or not or not or not or not or not

nobody wants you when you're doubt and out

and this I know without a doubt

let the luck that was once a blaze remain an ember

I swear to be true to you come December

as long as we're together.

 

-- Molly Arden

Comments

[Jill Newnham]

Thank you for your opinions and the references to popular songs and Sir Thomas Wyatt.

[Kent L Johnson]

This is really good. Are you familiar with the rhyme work of Anthony Madrid, David? You and he should team up and write a back and forth, like the recently late Marvin Bell and Bill Stafford, only much better, I'm sure.