Richard Schnap’s most recent poem to appear here was Portrait in Three Movements (March 2014).
Trinity
By Richard Schnap
He told me in a bar one night
There are three types of people
Those as mindless as sheep
Following whoever leads them
Those as predatory as wolves
Telling the sheep where to go
And those who are neither one
Wandering aimlessly as they will
But I replied he was partly right
For some seemed to be all three
As a blind man sang in a corner
An old ballad with words he made up
mindless as sheep
Following whoever
predatory as wolves
Wandering aimlessly
I agree.