Hee Haw
We walk where the blade talks
high wire of a divide
between schemes of dreams
and the certain verdict
in the capital trial called living
All walks punish with wishes
We wander dead ground
a travail through felled
trees of knowledge
The hee in the irony
of haw is we knew
all sides of the effects
but still stayed the course
Profits issue the orders
to disavow how this foul
and noxious handiwork
can level if not erase
our collective sense.
On the shoulders of hubris
we stand arms akimbo
assuring our final resting
place is disgrace
We think we’re invincible
too important to fail
too big to flail in our own stink
incapable of falling into oblivion
Until the fall we dismiss the mephitis
Telling ourselves it’s odorless
the perfect deflect to hasten
the end of our kind
joyously singing in acid rain
Timothy L. Rodriguez
Timothy L. Rodriguez has published in English and Spanish. Warren Publishing of Charlotte, NC, recently introduced his latest novel—Never is Now. His fiction and poems have appeared in over two dozen national and international publications, including Main Street Rag, Another Chicago Magazine, Stoneboat Literary Journal (2017 Pushcart nomination), The Raven’s Perch, and the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
