new verse

today I did a poetry reading at the Rotary Club of Taipei
and as always, I tried to write a new poem for the occasion
but I failed to come up with anything over the preceding couple of weeks
and even forgot about it
until I was walking the ten minutes from parking lot to hotel
when this popped into my brain (well, 50/50 insp/persp):

There once was a tiny coterie,
of people established the Rotary,
and what was their plan?
why, to help their fellow man,
and put an end to business cut-throatery.

it won’t win any prizes,
or ever make it to publication
but it went down well as a last offering to the lunchtime group.