On Balance
July 23, 2017
All the days shimmering flurries stir belligerent people
Seeking, and serving, not their brother’s better interest, neither
Their sister’s, mother’s, father’s, cousin’s, favourite budgie’s, rather
Leathering, lathering, taking up, and to task, to town, acute brouhahas
Circling a prey at night, eyes set, aglowing; rival tigers
Follow a wrathful vengeance; equity behind closed doors
Fired up animation draws out deepest depths of grief,
Into a place sway makes its own, they troupe their colours,
Surmising a pride they rise, impress, in their own seemings
Caught by that sheen within fair bubbles, they’re entrapped,
All trials bleak without, stand staring in, are counted set-aside;
Nor burdensome matter; no not against concupiscent pique
Beyond the shimmer sheen of glossy bubble-pearls a tract
Of hinterland; a wilderness where range aplenty pains
Where numbers press their cursive livings humble, unpreferred
Eking, not eating, muniment withholden, and entreaty none:
The world: its everyday condition, ably stings so many
Where then is the roomy mandate bids such large inventory?
See, see, celebrity, a favoured puff of smokes, upvote palavas;
Blether together consumed disputing - wellaway!
To whom might the money go, how much, and ever
Fair life’s unfair; their life-zone’s high indulgence
Squabbles at earnings offering relative effulgence
Men wear the skirt and women wear the trousers
Looking like peeping Toms in one another’s houses
Bristling each one at neighbour’s classy sofas
Bemoaning the other’s gain; their own selves losers
All forbearance of greater latitude besunken like a plumb
Let them all dig rare earths in swamps under the gun
Be this the venue this year; jolly treat, exotic fun!
Angola Getaway!