drama poem # 3
on a computer word game I play
a teacher her moniker trifioso
(her daughter tertiare) told in
the chat space that in a college
lit class they’d had to write their
own greek tragedy their queen:
hepatitis; – king: diabetes; the
princesses: chlamydia, rosacea;
messenger: herpes – he could
move really fast – there were
twin princes both named xerox
the second not quite as bright
©2018 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Feb 8-14, 2018.
