5.05.2019

Mussolini shoals




MARBLE FACT

Long way from stones of Notre Dame.
We haven’t that feudal allegiance
to a field beyond France.
Bright poppies blister over Belgium

where conundrum of Isis in Iowa
came from.  She is, and was
mysterium of Osiris
on the Mississip – Ezra’s mirror-delta;

hard marble fact planted at West Branch
in Herbert Hoover’s memory
(who would not have taken kindly
to any meat-locker Muss avalanche).

Ezra yodeling the alpine Swiss serene
of his muse Circe Clementine
Vichy (& all the swine
she mesmerized, so spotless clean)

erasing all that history of filthy usury
& black boys handing Bibles
through the bars... Abel’s
your bro, Ez – cain’t you see?

Ah... the shudder of absurdity.
Knife-stab in Marlowe’s eye
over the Jew of Malta,
of all things!  It cannot be.

It is.  Villon grins in your face,
King Flibberty-Gibbet.
Grimace may be safety net
for every reprobate.  O prodigal race...

5.4.19

 

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