All Greek to Me - Tug Dumbly

All Greek to Me

The unbearable sadness

of a novelty singing fish.

The wasted life in a rusted wok.

The surrendered hope                

in a dumped exercise bike.    

The cry in the cracked slime

of a kid’s clam shell pool. 

All that broken, copulating

shopping trolly army.

And this just the start.

There’s more, so much more

of this gentle grating raw

that Sophocles never saw,  

because there was no Aegean K-Mart.