The Diplomat
Story by charles_they on SoFurry
A small, unrhymed piece on diplomats and their lords.
The Diplomat
The Diplomat's a sorry, somber sort
who murmurs, meek, before their looming lords
and sings to them apologies for crimes
unfurled in distant lands by foreign kings
for whom regurgitation is a part
of every meal, and every meeting, too,
so they may preen and puff their feathers up
in indignation, fulminating fowl
enraged by slights perceived, however small,
and each prognosticates calamity
across their scintillating spectrum tales,
although the prophesied destruction feared
by them is not the falling of the sky,
obliteration of the masses, nor
return of wretched exiles to the nest.