IN A RUDE AWAKENING

In a rude awakening
from the middle ages
of knight and king
sounding from Arthur's
round table box
opening to Chaucer's pages
of a Chanticleer and fox,
passing in an anthology
of Spenser and Shakespeare
we all fear for Hamlet
King Henry and Lear
then onto the Romantics
and a new environment
Keats, Shelley,Byron,
until the Gothics of Weir
like Edgar Allen Poe,
then we are modern
in an engagement
from Eliot to Auden,
now everything is posted
with a click of the wrist
in a blanket arrangement
we twist from our pillow.