A circumpolar
walrus to
fit tariff 
and a
Chinese auction
was message 
in limbo
so raspy
in Hong
Kong with 
elevation in
the autumn
of yesteryear
flux this
political story 
of trade
and humanity

yesteryear

If a puzzle was his peer
and a parallelogram was his shirt
while his tangency threw his belt 
where his shoes kept aground
and his step to rather George didn't tarnish him;
with the steeples in bay windows on near side of the street to worship a gathering of wisdom where he'd praise mackerels
and the president with a gray suit.