Sunday’s Villanelle

“Duck Rabbit Dollar”

duck rabbit duck rabbit duck rabbit duck
damned ancient diagram of ambiguity
one from two and two stay stuck

How will I spend this bill or buck?
Shall I pay off a scintilla of annuity
duck rabbit duck rabbit duck rabbit duck

or perchance to the dollar store and leave all to luck
to bask in sweet, inchoate credulity?
one from two and two stay stuck

I’ll transform all my dimes to a candied cluck
as Alectryon, the sentry erotic, who failed his sedulity
duck rabbit duck rabbit duck rabbit duck

or to be less quixotic, ape the vagaries of Puck
or Huckleberry Finn who’d invest in canoe-ity.
one from two and two stay stuck

Why not two for one, you dolorous Fuck
you Greenbacked Mallard you Buggs Bogus Lepus Lazulity?
duck rabbit duck rabbit duck rabbit duck
one from two and two stay stuck.