Despair rides winds in a sky full of ravens, and in our cities and our towns, blind and deaf but not yet dumb, we sit and bicker.

Deliciously seditious, tangentially sidereal, cerulean. What’s the opposite of omniscient? Sagacious sages long gone, we sit and bicker.

Magenta strives with amber and amber with azure, prurience with abstinence, neither truly pure. Fury fomenting stupidity, we sit and bicker.

All the world’s a stage. The actors vanished, dusty props and faded backdrops and echoes and shadows wait while in the audience, we sit and bicker.

Dithering, underrated as an art form, deliberate dithering, not the incidental variation, perhaps a science or an undisciplined discipline, and still, we sit and bicker.

All the world’s a stage. The actors vanished, dusty props and faded backdrops and echoes and shadows wait while in the audience, we sit and bicker.

Magenta strives with amber and amber with azure, prurience with abstinence, neither truly pure. Fury fomenting stupidity, we sit and bicker.

Deliciously seditious, tangentially sidereal, cerulean. What’s the opposite of omniscient? Sagacious sages long gone, we sit and bicker.

Despair rides winds in a sky full of ravens, and in our cities and our towns, blind and deaf but not yet dumb, we sit and bicker.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2017; all rights reserved. Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia although he has primarily lived in the United States of America (of which he is a citizen). Until recently he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. He has academic degrees in political science (the Citadel), law (St. John’s University), international legal studies (New York University) and translation studies (the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). He can be contacted at wacalvo3@autonoma.edu.co or guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at http://www.guillermocalvo.com.