Four Indignitaries (aka Foreign Dignitaries)

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    I wrote this in the 80's.  The Berlin wall was smashed to the ground, and with it everything that it stood for. President Ronald Reagan  and Mikhail Gorbachev held their first Summit Meeting to discuss the control of the nuclear arms race, and the social reforms Gorbachev wanted for his country.  I was half listening to the radio, when the correspondent mentioned Four Indignitaries arriving in Geneva????  What are four indignitaries????  As I refocused my attention to the radio, I realised that he was saying Foreign Dignitaries arriving in Geneva for the talks. A poem was born! lol

    Four Indignitaries (aka Foreign Dignitaries)

     Four Indignitaries sitting in a tree.
    Each one asked the other, "How could this come to be?
    Had we been born as monkeys, we'd sit contentedly.
    How could this happen to Indignitaries such as we?"

    Four Indignitaries (same four) walking down a path.
    "The future is filled with the crawlers wrath.
    Had we been born dolphins, we'd communicate and laugh.
    Indignitarie's happiness would all come down to math.

    Four Indignitaries decide to build a wall.
    Each told the Crawlers, "Now neither side will fall.
    Had we been born one species, there'd be no one to crawl.
    We Four Indignitaries will answer to that call.'

    Four Indignitaries (THE foursome) plot to build a fight.
    "The crawlers grow in numbers, we fear their awesome might.
    Pit species against species, so to kill is only right.
    Their blood will never stain an Indignitary-ite!"

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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