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# Part II
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/part-ii/
- Published: 2023-12-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The angst over the loss of Western Civ. Why worry? Future Ciceros and Catos can dance on TikTok to the week's motif, performing with such passion and such pathos and get so many warm and heartfelt likes? No Cato was t...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The angst over the loss of Western Civ.  
Why worry? Future Ciceros and Catos  
can dance on TikTok to the week's motif,  
performing with such passion and such pathos  
and get so many warm and heartfelt likes?  
No Cato was this cherished or adored,  
nor Cicero beloved. Oh, you might "yikes"  
at juvenile theatrics by the bored,  
but really, have you carefully considered  
that you've become irascible and old?  
Bewildered, puzzled, stupefied, embittered  
by being fully out, not in the fold?  
Perhaps you're still enamored with your Gibbon.  
No worries. Everyone will get a ribbon.