She was industrious <br />for one of her elevated station, <br />not above scavenging <br />for her own building materials. <br />‘Well, you have to, ’ she might have said, <br />‘at least at the outset, <br />‘before the real workers get started.’ <br />I, however, no respecter of rank, <br />would have none of her, <br />and hit her with my latest work. <br />Ah well, one less wasp nest this summer. <br />Her epitaph – “Here lies a Queen, <br />killed by Poetry.”<br /><br />Paul Hansford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/death-of-a-queen/
