Behind the World in Flux

10:23 AM 12/11/2011 Sunday

Behind the World in Flux

In the diary of dreams are cast
The sharp pretensions
We once confided in

Silvery dignity with
Its delicate apparel
Multiplies by example

Therefore day follows day
Arrangements made by
High financial table-rappings

Bring up the ghosts of
Smith and Marx battling it out in
Their straw hats

Artists and beggars roughed up by
The state police like cows' ears
Wrenched off on a Sabbath

Hiding liars in the tall sedge
Society is a lagoon where
Monarchs and constitutions
Drown in manifest utility.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it;
and whoso breaketh an hedge,
a serpent shall bite him.