The Stuff of Disdain
Chicken-fried
steak with
brown gravy.
Pinched scrawl
on a
napkin.
Secret longings
seeping out
in a
restaurant.
One of
these days
they’ll
make up
a retroactive
law to
deal
with him.
Enemies will
become allies
the world
will unite
& he’ll
be shaped
into an
arch villain
in clay,
everyone’s
enemy.
Then how
he escaped
their notice
for
so long
will give
rise to
suspicion.
The alliance
will splinter
& he’ll
be forgotten
as the
wars begin
anew.
You may
wonder why
he takes
such risks.
It’s because
he knows
he’s
unfathomable,
the stuff
of disdain.
