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Famous Reporter 41 : July 2010

 

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STEFANIE BENNETT

Machiavelli Revisited


No one lives here any more, so how
Is it you found me
Slap-happily accosted by chores?
 
Yes, it's the Sabbath, and dare
I objurgate your
Sunday best's just too solemn
 
For my taste. Wise up. The young
Could do with a good rumble
Just ask that
 
Punk berating parrot how Homeric
Underpinnings took flight
The day I evened old scores.
 
But, why not
               Cut to the crux
                                Of the crime...
 
Ah! Mentoring is narcissism's
Elixir. Naturally
I'll give it spin
 
Only next time
Send me
A new born.

Stefanie Bennett  has published various titles & a novel. She is currently working on Black Spring - New & Selected Poems. Her most recent poetry volume, Symphony for Heart and Stone, was published in January 2009.