New Year Poem from Bill Costley

Half a Y@y!

Half a Y@y 4 the passing year!

Composer Ronald Stevenson
once ended a lecture in Embro
w/a pointedly-ironic mock-toast:

“Here’s 2 cheers for democracy!
“Hip, Hip!” omitting any “Hurray!”

quickly explaining that there were
‘great men’ long before democracy.

Apply to the Present; ask yourself:
Did I vote for this war in any way?
It was democratically voted for;
will it be Democratically ended?

Half a Y@y 4 the passing year!
but which half? Ya! or aY?
(OK, then, which 2/3?)

(31 DEC 06, Santa Clara)