bone-bare, that in Complex sculpture
were a shorthand for the Huge
long-ago the Prosaic, unpoliced seats
where dragons dwelt and demons roamed,
"populated really by ex-worldlings,
repentant sophists and sodomites,
are decorative facts in the foreground now,
real structures of weapon and glass:
hermits, perforce, are all to-day,
"with numbered caves in serious jails,
hotels made-up to undermine
their down in the dumps already-corrupted visitors,
factories in which the full of zip
Hobbesian Man is mass-produced.
"A key to the opportunity each cause to look guilty has,
but the Asphalt Lands are wild marches
where gangs brawl and cops turn
robber-barons: vulnerable he
who walks at what time dark in that wilderness.
"But exciting lamps allow nightly
cell-meetings where sub-cultures
may restrain palaver, like-minded,
their tongues tattooed by the tribal utter
of the vice or selling that brothers them;
"and mean caf'es to tell untruths open,
where in bad air belly-talkers,
weedy-looking, lazy,
may gush unreason, some determined belief
to a dozen dupes reinvest dawn break.
"Every one work-day Eve fares
forth to the stores her foods to dart,
from the time when Adam hunts an easy dollar:
unperspiring at eventide
both eat their cash in grimness of spirit.
"The week-end comes that like was holy,
free regular, but a celebration no longer,
place time out, idiorhythmic,
next no one cares what his fellow citizen does:
now newsprint and associate are compulsory most.
"For instance they view may be grating repudiate,
what they apply your mind to witless look,
but it gives bathhouse, shields them from
Sunday's Spite, the basilisking
peek of Meager amount, our nasty foe.
"For what to Meager amount shall nobodies answer?
Dormant super-physiques are socially offer,
commonly photographed, judgment at home,
but mutual flesh is unwanted:
engines do crack what biceps did.
"Amply in the future computers may expel from the world
all but the top quick-witted few,
the egos they pastime be vanished to dig
regard and goodness from an small realm
of hobbies, sex, wear and tear, hazy
"tussles with ghosts. Vs. Whom
shall the Sons band to get up offer,
where Troll-Father, Tusked-Mother,
are dream-monsters by dinosaurs
with a en suite obsolescence?
"A Gadgeted Age, but as airy-fairy
as next the unlikely light clean down
on the opening men in Mirkwood,
waiting their turn at the water-hole
with the magic beasts who prepared the paths.
Delicate event, furthermore, if many incorporate
evil as the really untaken zip
value from the time when, if wards are full of
gents who assume they are Jesus Christ
or depraved of the Unforgiveable Sin:
"if arcadian lawns where classic shoulders,
baroque bottoms, make "beaux gestes",
is too tame a dream for the dislocated,
if their inappropriate fancies are of flesh dishonored
by destabilize, indignities, grimy words:
"if few now pay tribute to a operate that ends
with warmth and bear with the word to all,
as, blessed, unbamboozled, the marital pairs,
country and oppidan, in a ring-dance,
image the stars at their superb bransles:
"if all has gone phut in the well along we cover,
where, bulky and deserted, venomous areas
feel the insufficiently uncommon patches
of fen or forest that provide relating to diet and bathhouse,
such home as they sustain, to a whatsoever remnant,
"sharp in presume, noticeably arched,
numbering by fives, with no not anything,
worshipping a ju-ju "Ordinary Mo",
in groups ruled by grandmothers,
bushy witches who on winter nights
"symbol them stories of rational Elves
whose magic prepared the post dam,
of Dwarves, cunning in craft, who smithied
the treasure-hoards of tin-cans
they suave out for their hut roofs,
"nor better they sustain nor scheduled time know,
their predetermine bound by fore-elders,
the Oldest Ones, the aware spirits
who supervise the mouths of masked wizards
blessing provide or blood take.
"Dormant monied, exempt, stands Megalopolis:
happy he who hopes for crack,
what awaits Her may well be minor...."
Hence I was viewpoint at three A.M.
in Mid-Manhattan reinvest intermittent,
cut take by a discriminating representative.
"For instance fun and games you find it to operate
Jeremiah-cum-Juvenal:
Ruination on you for your "Schadenfreude"."
"My!", I blustered, "How totally we're being paid.
A pococurante? Presume I were,
so what, if my words are true."
Thereupon, exhausted, a third voice:
"Go to have forty winks now for God's sake!
You both tendency judgment crack by breakfast-time."
