41.
Run far enough but do they listen
give them what they want and they’ll
come back
fierce dangers of getting what you
wish
these are my Moralia guide for
the oversexed
lost in the Middle Ages now
re-upholstered
in glamorous satin language America
America
I call you empty so I wade ashore
open the downturn invade the nucleus
Lincoln enthroned like an emperor
eagle talon’d held together disparate
republics
the cure almost worse than the
disease
almost and Miss Odessa’s black chess
pie.
42.
The one good thing about the Bible is
footnotes
commentaries hum like flies in the
butcher shop
every decent word breeds scores of
annotations
the simplest human sentence needs a
Mishnah of its own
and then they write that down and
before you know it
we need eight billion people on the
planet
to pronounce all the declensions of
that first verb
volo was it or nolo or gimme or I thirst
write it down as if the flowers might
forget
or Egypt turn wet again and Pharaohs shout
and mothers fret about their
adolescent sons
and Abel has a secret wife who cards
his wool.
