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Thus sayeth the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophetswho follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing. ―Ezekiel 13.2
When things get bad in the bog,
toads squat on the shoulders of pygmies.
Jubilant if they can see
clear to the next rotten log,
they trumpet farts of glee.
Two things about toads:
they celebrate the smallest victories
and always gloat with so little class.
Jan D. Hodge's poems have appeared in many print and online venues. His Taking Shape (a collection of carmina figurata) and The Bard & Scheherazade Keep Company (tales from Shakespeare and the Arabian Nights recast in double dactyl stanzas) have both been published by Able Muse Press.