Tonight's Poet Corner: Today Is Foolish
Today Is Foolish by Belinda Roddie There is imagination deep enough to fill a baker's teaspoon, thick as flour but hardly appetizing, the dollar on a string versus the fake pregnancy announcement typed in bruised text on a small tablet screen. It is disconcerting how the humor is lacking, like using coffee to soothe a throat aching from laughter rather than tea with just the right amount of honey. A sweetness is needed to carry the trick out, a gentle reminder that some scrapes can't always be healed with a bandaid. The jester stays in her tower now. Today, she is foolish. Other days, she is wise, dancing a choreography so neat that the king does not notice how she mocks his gait. He finds it all very clever. But if she were to perform this particular evening, she would caper and the monarch would roar, "How dare you tease me!" with the hot wax dripping from his teeth. All taste lost. There is nothing but dry dust in his cup. The flavor is