AN OBLIQUE ALLEGORY (PAGE 1,110)

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An oblique allegory

for guidance:

A word or phrase

is spun

by a drunk

a method of reckoning

what is correct

cast off skin

akin to hollow feeling

tramp in the slop bowl

—spiritual gambling

draining chamber pots

of slogan swill

to plod one’s way

esp. for

those to whom

the sense is familiar

I used Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary