IN THE VANGUARD
time to
fill your poems
with weapon words
tell the reader that
if they don’t like what
you have written
this is PARNASSUS
they will have
to fight their way
out of the trap
you have set them
Oh we must use words to
lure in and surround like
Hannibal at Canae
let them stream in thinking
their social media power will
flatten all before them
at the end
we shall give them a couplet
where they can leave with
honour the Roman way
using the same sword they thought
mightier than this katana
I am wielding now
in my imagination