How To Keep Your Head

How to keep your head – the question’s
Already been asked or at least, answered 
Or at least, addressed by 
Rudyard Kipling which is
A good address to have in English Lit –

Well, I don’t know the first thing about it. 

I always thought it closer to Ms. Dickinson’s
“I’m nobody – who are you?” in fact – 
Because being nobody is better than 
Being royalty when it comes to
Keeping your head and not
Collecting others. Mr. Alias Dodgson
Carrolled on about the Queen of Hearts 
Which made for good fiction even 
If everyone thinks 
She’s the Red Queen – but
Hearts aren’t really red and anyway
It’s said that people lose hearts 
All the time
And still lead perfectly fine
Lives, but heads are
One apiece and 
Judging biographically
I’m not so sure I 
Trust poetic 
Insight
For advice 
On keeping
Mine.



Published by Marushka

I dream curiosity and write words that change brains.

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