almost a numbness

Unimanticorn.

" '...do you know why we make no real progress?'

'Perhaps because we must carry tradition on our backs,' I ventured to say.

'No, no. It's simply because it is impossible to convince the fools that they are fools...' "

--Unamuno, "The Madness of Doctor Montarco"

"This is the only known copy in existence of the first edition of Shakespeare’s first printed work, Venus and Adonis, which appeared in 1593."

      1.
fallen leaves shining on one side
gapes hotly without parameter
passes election litter
the swart cube & the ghostly ape
still awed by a change of season
sunning on Egypt shoal afresh
a very expensive book
a goth yelps, that i read once,
then put away on a shelf forever
busk-yclept, shy poet lag

      2.
in that tangleglen the light has made
cars bound on some desp'rate mythchase burgeon
Jonestown nuestra · in this tangleglen
streets tremble with their gray cars bound

from crashsound to crashsilence, years

on nthat harvest hill the light has spurned
a goth yelps beside no Egypt shoal
topless towers on that harvest hill
a closed down mall where boomingly a goth yelps

from crashsound to crashsilence, years

      3.
bury more deeply the spark
that would have been a way
you didn't invent the spork
bury more deeply the spark
the sorrow that cannot speak
enough to know why
bury more deeply the spark
that would have been a way

      4.
these scant words thrown on the flames

Effects of glyphosate.