Minimalist

This is an old poem (last year) which is part of the Pugo & Tugo Routines. I was inspired by ikram Seth's 14-word sonnet which came out in Granta. Like Seth's, my poem follows a rhyme scheme.

The Minimalist Routine

(A Sonnet by Tugo in Defense of Evolution During the 1928 John Scopes trial aka The Monkey Trial)

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verismilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative"
W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado

I
Grasp
Asp:
Why?
What
Lust
Thrust
That?
Who
Scald
Bald?
You.
How
Hsiao