"Two Triolets For The New World Order"

Thanks to Peter Pereira for this link to the triolet, a poetic form I was once told I was by one of those tests that also inform me I am a "Pure Nerd" and the story of my life would have to be filmed by Ingmar Bergman with a half-cost budget. Sigh. What we think we don't know...
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Triolet For The New World Order



We had a little Monkey King
Who gave away our fortune
To the rich — He had this little thing!
We had a little Monkey King
Who had not wit, nor charm, but a ring
From a dynasty, a fine university: a cartoon!
We had a little Monkey King
Who gave away our fortune.



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Song For The Survivors To Sing In The Boats

~ a triolet for tragedy


We are our most human, and
Most willing in an inhumane sky,
Ordering in a new man — grand!
We are our most human, and
Civ, vile to a view. Man, land
In a sky-filled junk heap, try!
We are our most human, and
most willing in an inhumane sky.