Old Man of the Mountain

(Reblogging this March post today, the tenth anniversary of his fall. He is New Hampshire’s official state emblem.)

Poesy plus Polemics

indigenous flannel

keeps quaint values warm

through long winters

of cultural excess

when naked aberrations

pretend to be norms

by dressing in denim

and bypassing phases

of social experiment

abrupt in their forgery

enticing conformity

by modeling

eye-catching stylings

of a makeshift morality

especially aimed

at suggestible youth

yet to acquire

sturdy virtues

the old man

made manifest

before his great fall

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