Tug Dumbly - MetaTrog

MetaTrog

I’m a Troglodyte, so what a delight

to hear intelligent, articulate

people discourse, converse and recite.

I marvel at the wonder of it.

I’ve kept myself too far from the light

of vivacious, fizzing tongues

in the tossed salon of cultured flight.

I blunder from it, encased in my

cave of goop and gloom

and remedial club communication,

ashamed in skins of rawer things,

starved of the wit, banter

and rich insight of rightly razored

urbane types. So please pity my

poor bleeding couthless plight,

think kindly upon the tongue-tied fight

of me and my fellow dark troglodytes

in our grunty, smelly cave art nights.