More Maycomb and Mayberry

     One of the poems we had to write for the Creative Writing portfolio was of a current event in the format of a villanelle. So this is the final draft of that current-events poem.

What’s going on with this world, anyway?

With all the issues we find ourselves in?

Looks like we need more Maycomb and Mayberry…

Government treating common folks like an ashtray,

Wishes of unborn and elderly knocked aside like bowling pins,

What’s going on with this world, anyway?

Race troubles near St. Louis; and some dumb college kids’ fraternity;

Talk-show hosts shake their heads in chagrin,

Looks like we need more Maycomb and Mayberry…

Common Core? Scout Finch has something on that to say:

Reading untreasured until it’s lost, “One does not love breathing.”

What’s going on with this world, anyway?

 Pop-culturally at the moment, it’s all Fifty Shades of Grey.

“Yessir, that’s something you can’t preach enough about – SIN!”

Looks like we need more Maycomb and Mayberry…

Lessons learned from Andy, Atticus and Miss Maudie,

But most hearers didn’t get it, and those lessons were forgotten.

What’s going on with this world, anyway?

Looks like we need more Maycomb and Mayberry.