Indiscriminate

I‘m indiscriminate: my storied poos,

Nitrogenizing all of London Town,

Drop no more frequently on avenues

In Smithfield than on courtyards of the Crown.

Since also I’m ubiquitous, I fit

Conditions for a brand new logo that

Reflects how glitter’s juxtaposed with grit

In London: it’s a pigeon with its splat.

Museum critics scorn, and wrongly claim

I‘m never spoken, felt or thought about—

Not one has read enough to know my name

Appears in Tennyson and Blake … Watch out:

Though random fire’s my thing, if I see red,

Expect a pinpoint drop—right on your head!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Better Than Starbucks, The Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, MONO, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, the Satirist, the Washington Post and WestWard Quarterly. The poem was prompted by the BBC story, “Glittery pigeon poo splat logo divides opinion.”