Signs & Wonders by Charles Martin

Author:Charles Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Three Sonnets from the Romanesco of G.G. Belli

1/ The Good Soldiers

As soon as any earthly sovereign

Receives a slight in his own estimation,

“You are the enemy---” he tells his nation,

“---Of this or that king! Go and do him in!”

His people, eager to avoid the pen

Or some such pleasantry I will not mention,

Hoist muskets and ship out with the intention

Of making war on French or Englishmen.

So, for some martinet’s fantastic whims,

The sheep come stumbling back into the stall

With broken skulls and mutilated limbs.

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