Or you die
Or go crazy
Actually
Those happen anyway
Is their a third option?

Everything
returns to normal
the broken things
break again
and the elegant ball room
is once more just a ruin
if only the music never stopped.

A naked angel
and an ***** fiend
place bets on how
all this silliness will end      
not that either
really has anything
to wager with.

Humans are ants
Humans are wolves
Humans are machines
all of these by degrees
we build ourselves homes
that restrict the freedoms we crave
so we destroy to build again
that can't last forever
but then nothing can.

You
you who
you who can read
inbetween the lines
will probably drive yourself crazy
discovering coincidental patterns.

Wide eyed wonderment
poor city slicker
seeing something ancient
for the very first time
it is
something special
you get used to it.