Hyenas

Because of them the tigers left the pride
And have evolved to lonely hunters all,
Because of them the Irish gone inside
To drown their misery in bottled gall.

Because of them all chivalry has died
And what consideration may remain
To keep the tent providing open wide
(Maternal wisps of wisdom on the wane.)

Because of them the floodgates work no more
The tears pour in while’st freed from all constraint.
The dikes of learning lessons leak galore
Testost’roned excess’ totally their taint.

For lo’, senza coglioni though they be
Hyenas rape the university.

Fall, 2003
Princeton, NJ

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