hypocrisy sandwiched
in between the black
plastic coating of the
coaxial cable, somewhere
along the silver cord of
enlightenment, the braided
copper wires pick up a signal
from the ethereal messengers,
alchemy spread thick with the
wisdom of mayo and fitted together
on pumpernickel Aesop's Fable,
The Fox and the Grapes,
the moral, for it is easy to despise
what you cannot get,

One hot summer's day a FOX was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which
had been trained over a lofty branch.  "Just the thing to quench
my thirst," quoth he.  Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and
a jump, and just missed the bunch.  Turning round again with a
One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.  Again
and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to
give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I
am sure they are sour."

The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons

THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon
the Hawk to defend them.  He at once consented.  When they had
admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc
and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could
pounce upon in a whole year. 

Moral: Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

The Goat and the Goatherd

A GOATHERD had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock.
He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no
attention to the summons.  At last the Goatherd threw a stone,
and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master.
The Goat replied, "Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak
though I be silent." 

Moral: Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid.

hypocrisy sandwiched
in between the black
plastic coating of the
coaxial cable, somewhere
along the silver cord of enlightenment,
copper wires pick up a signal
from the ethereal messengers...

Copyright 11/06/2009 Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist