A Chatterbug’s Memoires
A Chatterbug’s Memoires
Before self-anointing try a means test
Have conference with the ash tree’s railing leaves
The dying fighter not yet wholly girdled
A corpse of heartwood chip by chip stripped clean
Bad tidings brought by an agent of the bourse
Make every act of treason underpay
Chapters of a chatterbug’s memoires
A shallow inflow floats a tug cross-channel
The salty dog’s crow’s feet and cheeks empurpled
Empaneled to assess this loss A-plus
Typifiers of their class breathe in
Gasses sweated from the borer’s skin
Remorse the last effective incantation
The fault that saves itself by being spoken
Piecemeal reprieves attrit into salvations
And manifestos detailed point by point
Fail in unfriendly execution
We forget
Tiny machines will wax and wane
Filling every pore
And would remain
A Chatterbug’s Memoires
(2018, Stephanie Foster)