An ESME Poetry Award Submission
New Friend for Pooh
did you hear?
they buried Christopher Robin alive
corporate execs put a potato sack over his head and took him three miles due west from Rabbit’s garden
they tossed him into a honeypot shaped hole
and powered by the greed of the glittery capitalist machine that is impressionable little girls and their pushover parents
those execs rolled up their sleeves
and all while ignoring his screams
planted the boy deep into the earth
there was not so much as a candlelit memorial afterwards
no chance to pay respects or opportunity to say goodbye for anyone born before 2005
not even a one-liner in the back of the paper
or flag held at half-staff
a multifaceted travesty of the largest order
to thoughtlessly plop a little girl with red hair in his place
an outright disgrace
complete disregard for the potential of imagination in the sons or our age
a broad daylight murder due simply and shamefully to the buying force of our daughters
Terimarie Degree is a mid-west residing emerging writer and poet. She grew up the child to a naval officer living everywhere from southern California to unique locales such as the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. These experiences have supplied reflections that cover an assortment of topics from faith, family, relationships and coming of age in the 1980s.