Condition: Competitiva, Love Conditional

Image of a painted rendering of Calliope

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When this tadpole was

Springing into frog-hood,

Glen Campbell told of

“Unconditional Love!”

Now that the odometer

has clinked upwards

to Linked-In,

the Twenty-Teens tell us

to Post and Proclaim

how Great the Name

of Narcissus or Narcissa

(whichever the case may be).

In what addled wisdom

Is it apropros not in the name of

Evato;

But rather Calliope

Shall decree that [when new]

was fresh and sweet. Now,

the same qualities shall show

as wearying: contemptible.

Whither the human hand of

Trust?

Alas, it has gone bust.

And I don’t believe Calliope,

Neither has she, if you were

to ask He (Wraith’s target)

if there’s ever been a street in N.O.L.A.

that beareth Calliope’s name.

It is far better, then,

to Forget, and to Forge Onward!

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