Queen of Chaos
I am the Queen of Chaos,
Empress of Entropy.
Czarina of Disorder,
My stuff is all at sea:
My desk is full of ashtrays
My floor is full of books
My bureau’s full of clothing
And my kitchen’s full of cooks.
My living room has weasels
My dining room has rats
My bathroom’s home to elephants
And my belfry, it has bats.
Leslie Hidley is retired from the safety business and lives in a small town in southern California. She has published poetry in Sparks of Calliope and other writing in the Ojai Quarterly and Ojai Monthly. She has just published her first long poem, “The Burglars’ Ball,” available on Amazon and a YouTube video of the same title. It’s a poem about a family of marauding raccoons and how they’re entertained by a boy and his grandfather.
Leslie, better to be queen of something than not queen of anything. I appreciate your humorous well-rhymed poem. I might have changed my last line to “And my belfry’s full of bats,” but that is nitpicking. It just seems smoother. I enjoyed and identified with your humor.