Beating the Dead

Beating the dead with a stick
is a churlish trick
especially when the dead was your better
and, now, looks even better
the longer dead.

And that’s the way it is,
so why would you want to fight it,
bring it up again for review.
You were outmanned,
now choose to fight unmanly.

It’s a foolish thing you’ve done. 
Historians also have sticks:
pencils and pens and computers,
the research done
will long exist in their books.

 And don’t discount the poets:
about how you whined
and wined and dined on your hate
like a three-year-old in wet diapers
needing Mama’s breast.