Tense

Tense

Past: Pat passed.
Rain pats rats, pitter patter.
In the sewers; chitter chatter:
"Do her, sue her", in the litter.

Latter; Pat sits, stately
A date bleats:
"Th'economy...weak"
The rosy prose of
proles rolls out her mouth
uncouth
but shrouded
behind crowded
words, faux wise.
Why's it right
the unqualified rise?
Lies.

And next, who'd
care? doomed are we.
Stuck in the