The charred scent of paper Atop the ******* skyscraper Burns when a life is consumed In its greenish greedy gown On it has been proudly sown A golden triangle. It assumed Its complete authority over The human race we chase Its glinting giggling gorge Postponing the petty morgue Adorning chests in a tower Of wealth, of woe, of war Some are the jacks in tar Others the *****, the ace
Hovering over cities Teasing the daisies. That thick soot Flawless is flaying Slowly peeling Away layers of our root We gambol and gamble Pitiful onions in unions Hawkers jaywalking Hunters, judges, humble Flock of those who can think Trying to make sense of ions We can with a gun link Deaths and collapsing ink.
The bright dollar bill smolders On Atlas’ sore shoulders An intricate golden lattice In lieu of a benighted bodice It lifts Man on a rusty noose King on a heap of newspapers The charred choking scent Demonic, deliquescent Atop the ******* skyscrapers. For a divine raiment Would the goofy government Trade your blood and lymph For a smoke and mirrors nymph? I choose not, please turn us loose?
We are the scorching enemy All in all, possessed by the mark We gloat over the metonymy Of our radiant success We are nothing under duress But pigs left bound to bark In the mud of our sockets Buy this diamond necklace So you can prove, in the race Of rats, you are the best of piglets “How much does it cost?’’, asks the poet But his voice is regarded as a dandling duet Society sleeps, makes loves, guzzles A writer too, probably feebly fizzles…
All the while the creased cremated paper Will keep on swallowing us over and over This smoke once was the signal of civilization It is now the ominous gleam of our globalization Soothing soot it is not, it throttles us all I foresee it but soon we shall Fall back into this drowsy land Demise of those who did not stand Up behind the legacy of a quill That is now silent in steel, still Child, write down your future Your literature will triumph for sure! I’d read his lines instead of gulping down The shiny pill of tomorrow brand new uptown!