Poems of the Week

The Pits and the Tedium

by Felicity Teague

The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved … Quite why will probably never be known, but [the lead researcher] speculated it may have been linked to a belief in an underworld.”
The Guardian

As there’s no Neolithic-times witness
and no archaeological hoard,
let’s suggest, so as not to seem witless,
that the makers were just… hella bored?