Someone brings out a soda,
Handing it over to you,
And now you have to decide
How this transaction’s going.
Where will you hunt for meaning,
Now meaning has been hinted?
In the transaction itself?
Something to do with context?
The man who bears a striking
Likeness to Solzhenitsyn
And is currently holding
Forth on the Apocalypse,
Jesus, and astrology?
Frost said the moment he held
His breath composing Stopping
By Woods was actually when
He committed to the rhyme.
What’s trickiest in this scene
And what can you do with it?
It has to have some meaning,
The ominous bystander
Growls, as meaningfully as
Solzhenitsyn lecturing
Secular Americans.
