Original post 1 week 4

Speak Softly, Big Stick 

"I know something but I won't tell" the girl with pigtails hollered 

over rope on asphalt, when a low riding Cadillac turned over 

in the next lot. "Three little monkeys in a peanut shell."

Rough Riding Roosevelt wrote Henry Sprague, between 

two pages of government, said: "if I had yelled and blustered, 

I would not have ten votes," waxing in New York's abandon. 

Alas. The world is nothing without wind, 

and only hummingbirds hover, unless dead. 

You understand nothing because knowledge is sin. 

New York in '01. Demeter refused trees to fruit until Zeus 

brought Persephone from Hades. The ground was hapless. 

Men on United 93 fought a fake bomb to the ground, 

pushing past the detonator and waiting carts of Coke and pretzels, 

taking a fire axe to the flight door.

This is based on what we did with "Adulterated" by Jack Gilbert.