The Age of Ignorance

In order to get there
go out and return
or haven't you been there?
Up and up, to the shade
and forest, and down
again because to die there.
Have not all rules
been ignored then
and that is ignorance?
To each his own
they say and that is
our noble polytheism.
Sending these coupons
through the mail
to you, to your table.
Have not the laureates
culled their letters
for the laws they lived by?

Last Part of the Savagery

On the reverse rows
upon rows of untended
white, charlatans everywhere
engagin the swagger
chief chieftains in the bread
box all the chaf
pulled up too, the horizon
perfectly square or is it
there are no limits to nothing
only to the first
pestered side - this one
that aims to limit
discuss the aroma the shape
of the shape it would be.
Your creationist, not invisible
working only through
intentional parameters
and gauges - stipulations
as the Lord tried to un-mean
everything they tried the Lord to mean.

The book of tiny hearts
was written last year
after circling the block
in her light blue sedan
shoved into the push up bra
were instructions on
how to read it.
She couldn't keep anything
down, up came
everything from the fourth
grade on - dimestores and fireworks,
men with big hands,
lessons about fornication,
hand held digests
explaining the gesticulations
of the Church.
Say you're sorry if you can.
Say you're sorry as an apple,
a footstep. Here they preach
big excuses and retrievals.

Why the flour sacks?
A foreigner exile
to citizen as such
boll weevil,
the rules of fiction
and shallow myths
only partly buried
among the royalties
and remonstrations,
the back and forth party.