Apr 17, 2011

LOVE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP



A thousand stones
in the sky-
diadem, unidentified,
strobing, errant superego 
parts the cumulonimbus
like a curtain of hair.

Long ago, we gave
these bodies to them.
Skies throbbed
ecstatic.  Nothing but
barbed wire to helix
this coil now.   
The Caduceus
shoots a flame
for purgation.
Serpents squeeze 
the barrel, the herm 
squirts petroleum
& lucre.

That which cannot be owned
abhorred.  Skin soft &
smooth for encoding,
the name branded, the price
too.  The oldest trick
a lame duck
bookless until the universal
language can only say

check please.

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