My Poem in Totus Tuus

 

My poem "Father G" has appeared in the Christmas edition of Totus Tuus magazine, edition 35.

It's a comic-serious poem and all of it is taken from real life, down to the last detail.

Speaking of poetry...

A new colleague in the library said to me today: "There are some good books in the book return."

I was feeling a bit feisty so I said: "The only good books are poetry. Everything else is just entertainment."

An exaggeration, of course, but not an entirely unjustified one. There followed my usual twenty-minute spiel on the decline of poetry (can be extended on request, or even without request).

Long before TikTok or reality TV or Beavis and Butthead, cultural decline had already well set in. Give the poor millennials a break. We are all savages these days.