Don't Know Much About History

I villanelle my dilemmas.

That’s what a villanelle is for.
It unravels all the dramas.

Never forgetting about the promise—
the surprize rhyme behind Door
Number 2 (choosing doors is one dilemma,

plus always trying to obey the rules of grammar).
I sit here in my peaceful chair
while a million fatal dramas

are being enacted, with enormous
consequence for life itself that I barely dare
contemplate, spelling dire dilemmas

for humankind that we’re mostly ignoring—
though aware
we’re probably on the brink of catastrophic drama.

But a villanelle makes nothing happen.
That’s what a slide rule is for:
to calculate in drachmas our dilemmas
(unfolding Dharma).