Like all children, you were a de facto
Member of the Flat Earth Society,
Believing nothing but what you could see
Or touch or whatever sense led act to
Fruition: mudpies made summer beneath
A tree whose measured shade endowed decrees
Between light and dark: such hierarchies
Gave you implicit, a sophistic faith--
(Fallacious fellowship!)"
Youth's adherents
Ignore the fact that most factions reject
Their lyric league (which only fools have stayed
Striplings of) and none condone its nonsense:
No-one loves that vain solipsistic sect
You'd never join, whose dues you've always paid.
The Unsubscriber
Bill Knott
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Poem topics: children, dark, faith, light, lyric, never, summer, tree, april fools, ignore, earth, society, shade, sense, flat, touch, beneath, league, youth, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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