04-22-2025, 01:47 AM
Reagan and Thatcher, titans drawing
Mammon's carriage to the square
like the lions of Cybele
or the bugs that flap their wings
on Stalin's upper lip,
succeeded by the lovechild of Nergal
and Cythera---a letter fewer at the start
than at the fatal end---at last
walls, towers, long-neglected
bridges falling, nonsense filling
the streams by which shut-ins like us
would have kept connected:
and all this just the carpet for
the palmy beast returning.
Mammon's carriage to the square
like the lions of Cybele
or the bugs that flap their wings
on Stalin's upper lip,
succeeded by the lovechild of Nergal
and Cythera---a letter fewer at the start
than at the fatal end---at last
walls, towers, long-neglected
bridges falling, nonsense filling
the streams by which shut-ins like us
would have kept connected:
and all this just the carpet for
the palmy beast returning.