IRONY

     It's such a pleasure to be able to write something that isn't expressing my distaste for the piece ofshit that used to occupy the Whitehouse. His party is still doing what they do best, but I'm setting them aside for a poem. I'm not comfortable with poetry, it has always seemed just beyond my reach. 

     But from time-to-time I get that masochistic desire to fail at something spectacularly. 

                                                     IRONY

All my life I've

Admired writers; 

Fed on their product, 

Their labor and

Their ruminations.

Deep down in my

Subconscious mind

I wanted to be

As talented as they,

To write with skill.

Finally, in the 

Closing decades of 

My sentient life, 

I've learned to write a

Sentenc filled with depth.

To assemble those 

Sentences into

Paragraphs; stringing

Them into a train

Of concise concepts.

And now, just as

I've gained the skills

That I've desired.

The whole world changes. 

Tweets are what are read.

280 characters!

Not words, just letters!

A space the equal

A character no

Less than a letter.

It's similar

To learning epic 

Poetry while the 

Rest of the planet

Reads Haiku.