Newyear’spoem #7

well now it’s new year’s again an occasional poem is written for an occasion: robert frost wrote one for JFK maya angelou wrote one for bill clinton but when wordsworth was england’s poet laureate he refused to write occasional poems; they are not usually the poet’s best work. still, here is an occasion. my wish for twenty eleven is that the large hadron collider now finished after fifteen years manages to find a higg maybe two, and the yellow legged frog now twenty-five adults away from extinction (180 frog species have already gone missing in recent years; shouldn’t that alarm us?) anyway I wish the couple dozen or so pampered pollywogs just released from careful lab rearing into their native streams thrive to breed more pollywogs me? oh I just wish to finish the book I began when I was fifteen —Jacqueline Jackson

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