The Deadly S Curve

Slaughter and laughter—they don’t even rhyme;

the latter shakes rafters, the first is a crime.

By adding one letter, in essence, the “s”

changes joy, fun, and frolic to death and distress.

Though laughter has power to soothe savage breasts,

some laugh as they slaughter their foes, friends, and guests.

But slaughter’s anathema, urban or rural.

The murders in Guernica, Picasso’s mural

depicts war’s atrocities—where there’d been laughter,

a solemn memorial cries ever after.

Yet war still continues in homes, streets, and nations,

intransigent struggles for peaceful relations.

By Ken Gosse

From: United States

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