Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">WHEN FOOLS DISPUTE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">A trickle of dawn insinuated itself</div> <div class="verse">Through the crevices of black satiation.</div> <div class="verse">The elderly trees coughed, lightly, hurriedly,</div> <div class="verse">In remonstrance against the invasion.</div> <div class="verse">Lean with a virginal poison,</div> <div class="verse">The grass-blades shook, immune to light and time.</div> <div class="verse">A bird lost in a tree</div> <div class="verse">Shrilly flirted with its energy....</div> <div class="verse">One fool, in the garden, spoke to another.</div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />