October Poetics
October, October
weirdly named you are
you come in tenth but signify eighth
obviously you couldn’t
invade August’s territory
The yellow month, the winterfylleth
leaves leaves leaves, a party of leaves
hockey begins and baseball ends
To humble us after July and August
God gave us October
To prepare us for November and December
God gave us October
To learn longsuffering, we got the October frost
First book-end
The 1st of October
274th day of the year
tumultous
Mammon begins trusting in God
and in Model T’s
International day of older persons
why did they pick October
Berkeley wants to be free to speak
Alexander the Great takes action
and defeats Darius
Second book-end
The 15th
rest easy
only 77 more days to go
listen
this day gave us
Tito Jackson
and took away Goering
not crazy about Jackson
but I still like the trade
Third book-end
The 31st of October, multifaceted day
John Candy and Vanilla Ice born
Ghandi assasinated
Reformation Day and Halloween
Stalin’s body removed from Lenin’s tomb
Enigmas wrapped in mysteries
like the Red October
which didn’t start ’til November
communism is so messed up
even its revolutions
aren’t named properly
October crisis
Canadian federalism’s zit
reversals, reversals
providence has some wit
for once the Canadiens subjegate a Brit!
