Patricia Wallace Jones

A Mardi Gras Toast

 

The Earth is tolling midnight, friends.
Enough with cries of “carpe diem.”
Here, the Carnival brio ends.
The Earth is tolling midnight, friends.
Remove your masks, and make amends.
We are the gruesome wax museum.
The Earth is tolling midnight, friends.
Enough with cries of “carpe diem.”