Old Fraternity

Only any who said it’s a passing phase could be 

ready to shed woolly credibility; & we might add 

all too easily prefaced with a covert wink & nod - 

as if cues to the cognoscenti who rarely miss th’

obvious clues implied; manic crazes do go away 

as a last edition’s waning trend, replaced, ad lib 

you’d guess, by the next biggest cabbage in the 

heap of ovis aries attachments we’ll eat happily 

And anyway it keeps interest focussed where the 

least intimately contentious argument blends into 

a smooth pastiche of borrowed heat; and there in 

tune with a staccato beat in a one-note harmony, 

we dance into a new view, & all while learning th’ 

proper moves to look just like the old fraternity 

© 21 November 2015, I. D. Carswell