A Trifling Tale

                                             A Trifling Tale

                                                                      Kay Jordan

                                    A tricolored trilobite

                                    once lived in a trifoliated trillium

                                    that grew in a triforium.

                                    She suffered the trials

                                    and tribulations

                                    of a trite tryst

                                    with an untrustworthy Triton.

                                    He served her truffles

                                    on a treacherous trestle.

                                    A train traversed the trestle

                                    and in a trice

                                    the tricolored trilobite became extinct.

                                    The moral of this trifling tale

                                     is not hard to tell----

                                     A tricolored trilobite

                                     should never eat truffles

                                     with an untrustworthy Triton

                                     on a treacherous trestle

                                     that a train might traverse.