One may misinterpret this lone star tick
for another
do not be hasty.
If it continues to rule
that will be your last self-governing choice.
Make no mistake
this tick is tricky and nasty
it can and will make you sick.
Not to be mistaken for the deer tick or the brown dog tick
which are something else entirely.
This spangled lone star tick
has a white dot under that coif
and very large incisors which it sharpens
on a wit tick a new tick on the block,
not funny at all.
It has an even smaller stick,
if you get my drift
which I sense is why
this Lone Star
lacks any standards.
Don’t let it kiss your babies.
In my unbiased opinion
this tick
will only trick the nitwits
infecting us all with
nervous party politics.
Published by
C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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