 This week’s poem is by permission of Robert Erickson, brother-in-law to Springfield’s Delinda
Chapman. He is in hospice, and hopes to live to see these prescient words printed in Illinois Times.
Having Survived Double Jeopardy and Made
My Wager, I Anxiously Wait for Alex To Begin
A reminder, the Final Jeopardy category is:
World Events.
And the Final Jeopardy answer is:
Their hypocrisy, rapacity,
and total and benighted indifference
caused the end of all life
as we know it
on the face of the Earth.
Players, be sure to frame your response
in the form of a question.
From: some thoughts I had some things I did
some words I wrote
2010, Crofton Creek Press
©2016 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2016.
