Ruins of a Sunken Pier

Ruins of a Sunken Pier

Dr Abe V Rotor

Puerto, Sto Domingo, Ilocos Sur.  Photo by the author.

No, it was not the big gun

that brought you down;

it was old Lamarckian

who brought in the clown.

When not in use, a thing

degenerates into nothing;

once a rudiment,

it is a useless instrument.

The limbs of a reptile,

the coccyx of the tail,

Intramuros or Great Wall

are of no use at all.

Idleness and uselessness

are a duo in the art of waste;

great indeed is loss in disuse,

the grey matter's no excuse. ~