Poems of the Week

Run Silent, Run Shallow

by Marshall Begel

“[P]olice arrest a cigarette smuggler disguised as a [hyacinth] water plant as he tries to cross a river
from Paraguay to Argentina.”
Daily Mail

Sneakily, peekily
Paraguay snorkeler
Smuggling cigarettes
Ended up caught.

Is this a workable
Entrepreneurial
Business scenario?
Certainly not.

Officers saw through his
Invisibility—
Maybe the hyacinth
Captured their notice?

Modification of
Biomaterials
May improve camouflage—
Next time, try lotus.