DITTY

[AT THIS DATE, NOT ON THIS DATE]

It has been a quiet year:

Just as full of Hate & fear
& Riot, War        
         ... & Gore
as any year before

(too bad
Wind is as deaf as Mankind is:

We had
as many airy promises of Peace
--floating about):

Just as last time

There was A Song

There was A Rhyme

& before long
Sing-Song ended
in Blows!...

How? No one knows
(no doubt)

But: THOSE attacked--

And THESE defended--

Children died

& Children cried

--Quite unintended--

& as it happens with any war:

Combatants soon mended
(with a geographic scar)

their 'little' differences

& even sent AID to their foes!

(As it goes:

most proper, right & natural
& classical)

Too: Bad year for The Statistic-
al soar! of Progress ^[pun]

Despite the outpour

only zillions more

were brutalized/starved dead or sick,
tortured & bled, my dear

--but cheer! ...

I'm sure we'll make it up next year.