Eight-line Poems

Discernment

Discernment

The thing that makes me ponder
about a Bad Art Gallery
is that I often wonder
(no, not of curator’s salary)
but of how on earth we’d tell
the diff’rence between this mother
and the actual living hell
of all the others.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 01.04.23
Prompt: Museum of Bad Art, Somerville, Massachusetts.