indentured flying Capuchins do editorials
in ringfenced malaise the fervour holds
as soap box decorated poltroons
hail the dark arts in chalk stains
the clumsy dexterities of arthritic magicians

in peeling a brain the brain peels them
the Centurions at Golgotha are boozing
unwoke in unawareness they sing
the ballards of ***** canaries
lifted from the prints of invisible deeds

wears the stigmata of honor and truth
the reincarnated Scipio Africanus
sees the wraiths writhe in scornful shame
defunct rulers limping in the Acheron
submerged in  the Cocytus and the Phlegethon

at home in the fields of sheep and knaves
mendacity crowned in Emperor's robes seen
alas the scales peeling off the nudists now exposed
scaramouches posing and posturing as buffoons defined
going down on their mamas hailing themselves Adonis
the Asians and Africans can talk they are not so inclined
some matters in the forum are best left to the imperialist