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A Cult of Nag
A Zodiac of one, Medusa’s shrunken head,
The field’s most subtle beast at his most obvious,
The serpent Satan's other spreads his flaring hood,
And in his weaving shadow, evil, good, and we
Must see it out. Advantage is to which can tempt,
Or never question, or can blow the reed and charm.
Facing the Gorgon’s glance, discouraging to know,
So late among the signs, the universal mix
Of myth, that any mongoose has it easier.
The ruse of Perseus, the mirror, was, at last,
An act of cowardice. Stone would, for all he knew,
Have been the more informative experience,
And possibly the more erotic. Andromeda
Chained on a rock is any bondage fantasy.
It was our Mother Eve and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Who resolutely looked upon the Ding an sich
And lived to tell the tale, although made famous each
By someone else’s telling. We who wet the reed,
Brave understudies of the serpent’s subtleties,
Invent of combinations ours and stars not used
New birth, new beasts, a horoscope of selves left out.
Vast Reptile of the Garden all about, false tongue
Of knowledge flawed, draw in your venom and submit.
No constellation is more clear than the one we name,
No antitoxin strong as one that we believe.
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Amortization and its Discontents
Whatever future was the pledge,
Dissatisfaction has the edge.
Not that the grass is elsewhere greener,
But that both it and ours grow meaner.
The hay made while the sun shines sours;
One can improve his shining hours,
Not lengthen. Does to have and flaunt not
Mock the poor man’s waste not, want not,
Or does it parallel it? Greed
As demonstration of the need,
Unanswerable and unafforded,
To hoard what cannot now be hoarded:
The decades wasting of themselves.
A cliff erodes; an ice floe shelves;
Our future is a sum that dwindles,
Memory bank a bank that swindles.
One way or other, time subtracts.
Life is a minus sign that acts.
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As the Turk Turns
All crusades are the Children's in a sense:
Well meaning, uninformed, ill planned, intense.
Nothing but second childhood can explain
Ford's Ship of Peace, or Wilson's trek by train
Toward apoplexy. Activists who tout
Their diets are the inner child come out.
The medieval counterparts en route
To Palestine first were the captured loot
Of Turkish pirates, and thereafter slaves.
And can we say a Jolly Roger waves
Today above the waiting chains of cults,
Street gangs, addiction, to the end results
Of which the adolescent odalisque
And neutered harem guardian might speak.
"Jerusalem was freed, but not by us.
Mantras do not accomplish; fighting does."
Assassin is derived from hashish; blame
The victim, not the drug and not the name.
More and more abstract are the crusades "pride"
Mounts: gender-neutral ads, promotion tied
To quotas, pressures same-sex unions mate
Their fragile lifeboat with the ship of state.
The unattainable is still pursued;
The unenforceable is still renewed.
In fairness to the Turks we have to say
It's piracies, not fetishes that pay..
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Augmented Adages
Burning your bridges all behind you
Assures that ferry boats will find you.
Counting your chickens as a batch
Means counts before and after match.
It is a form of forward-looking,
As in a strike threat double-booking
Airline tickets also is,
And calling unknown females “Ms.”
The bridges’ piers remain to mock you;
The claw mocks of a cockfight pock you.
Charon waits at every ferry;
A Ms. is cipher; widow merry.
The past is what it was, and more.
The flight you miss, you’ve missed before.
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BARGAINS ARE BY DEFINITION FAUSTIAN
These are the years for mending what can still be mended.
Too many breaks already are not healed but ended.
As, when the equation’s other half is gone
There can be no solution, and the one on one
That was the balance is a tipping of the scale
Toward being found forever wanting, horseshoe nail
Of battles lost, the gallows trapdoor sprung,
The weight of doom. I dangle on a too sharp tongue
And too precise. The dust of gold, the empty pan,
The younger self strung up now tell me what they can:
Be civil to your former lovers, Kindly Poet.
If they have botched their lives there is no sign they know it.
If you have parlayed yours into a sort of Gounod
Kermesse you have paid a price. That much they do know.
But who’s to say Mephisto’s not seducible-Where but on his own ground?--or that the crucible
All our bargains, not just this, return us to
Is not congenial, or at least will do.
Having required more of our time, and shaped our ends,
Old enemies may mean more now than do old friends,
As if a bony finger, pressing down behind us,
Distorted values on the scales that so remind us.
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East Bank, West Bank
The double line of life,
Cliff-paralleling green,
Accompanies the Nile,
As, flood on flood,
Dark loam puts down the years.
Exactly as if ink
On maps brushed-in its way,
Thin Egypt courses north.
At river level, cliff,
Cane, sky. No sight of sand
Low in between. Buff haze
At the horizon, grit
On cottons which we buy,
Insinuate alone
How near the desert is.
Some five millennia
Know how to fight it off:
Fruit in the mouth alive
And on the tongue at death
The quenching, everlasting myrrh.
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Eclogue against Ecology
Fool’s Paradise? And is there any other kind?
The fruits of Eden, we know, now, are largely rind,
And knowledge less a tree than some intrusive graft
That does not take. To know is not so much a craft
As it is exercise in self-deception: Eve
Or Adam, we embrace the Garden that we leave,
Attracted by the warnings put there to deter.
Deep down, it is the challenges that we prefer.
Hunting has more appeal than naming, and the name
Of any beast outside the gate is simply game.
From food to sport to murder is a seamless scale,
But if we break it we return to worm and snail
And that nude pair so bored they took up with a snake.
Cain’s sons are gladiators; Abel’s wield a rake.
If Eve has daughters have they taken to the street
From down the garden path? Had they a choice? Who eat
The fruit the pits will sicken. Checkpoint Angel, sword
Aflame, is subtlety the sin we backslide toward?
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Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie
Edith:
I sheltered from his world a dying man.
Nancy: As I did. One must function as one can,
And I was daughter of a doctor. You…
“Ole Miss” a little out of time.
Edith:
How true.
The White House is the Old Plantation stripped.
No loyalty, no aid. A whited crypt.
Nancy:
As keepers of the flame we kept the gate.
Edith:
Admit the Press and see them douse the grate.
Nancy:
Did we succeed?
Edith:
You did. The long intrigue
Out of the East is done. As for a League,
That languished. Enemies are thick to meet:
The Kremlin or the Congress.
Nancy:
Or the street.
Assassination, stroke; a few discreet
Releases as to state of mind or health
And we are held up to a charge of stealth,
Greed, power madness.
Edith:
Live a little while
Beyond the libelers and let that guile
Be your rebuttal. Once who pry are dead
Research will have to go with what we said.
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Elegy in the Vicinity of Duino
Outside Trieste, Castle Miramar
Is what the wilder shores of Europe are,
And that by virtue of décor, not site:
Highland Baronial, the Coburg blight,
Balmoral by the Adriatic. Not
Too tasteful, Maximilian's Charlotte
(If you prefer, Carlota; Mexico
Had neither preference nor chance to show),
But, some few years before Victoria,
An empress. For the nonce Italia,
Hard on the heels of being Austrian
(Austro-Hungarian), Pan-Istrian,
Free City, Allied Zone, or What-You-Have ,
Thanks to D'Annunzio, not Yugoslav,
Trieste vacillates along its shore,
A counter-Venice, interested more
In shipyards than in marrying the sea,
Whose relict nonetheless it comes to be,
In murder of the Archduke (no, not Max;
Franz Ferdinand) as Versailles bargains, hacks
Away its hinterland. Art student, tear
Yourself away a while from St. Mark's square
And say, if you have knowledge, how it is
Art's judgments, plebescites', and history's
Cannot locate the moral in this wreck.
It's that Vienna's not Chapultapec.
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Forbidden Stitches
What Congolese thumb-chopping was to missionaries,
Female circumcision is to luminaries
Such as Alice Walker, although as now reckoned
The blame cannot be placed on Leopold II.
But neither can the amputations, being mere
Continuance of folk tradition in Zaire.
De-digitation was the tribal punishment;
And if the Free State rubber shipments were not sent
Its agents had reprisal, so to say, at hand.
The King was at Cap Ferrat, head not stuck in sand
But not concerned with method either. Since before
Nabokov’s Humbert none was more obsessed with, more
Adept in the pursuit of nymphets than the Coburg,
Be they at La Monnaie, or, speaking Vlaams, the Schouwburg.
The Audrey Hepburn of her time, Cleo de Merode,
Enabled him as pervert to out-Herod Herod.
He clearly never would have sanctioned tucks and stitches,
Unless, of course, they added to his riches.
You have to take the avalanches with the Alp;
The basket weaver may appropriate the scalp,
The lace purveyor let the tatting nuns go blind,
A silk exporter, early, put into a bind
The girl-child foot. Le Roi at least did not pretend
To knowledge of Ituri carvings, or defend
Their worth as anything but so much ivory.
The knife that cut them may have cut some “joy” away.
Tiens, Alice. If you want the hands of butchers stayed,
You’ll have to be prepared to call a blade a blade.
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