After years in the garden of earthly delights
The apotheosis of the senses
You will have learned the dismal truth
That forces and particles are the source of the problem

Step gingerly around the griffin turds
The pearly turds of unicorn
Gigantic poisonous flowers
Rotting mangoes the size of atom bombs

The pleasures of grandparenthood
The comforts of dotage
The decline into senility
A carnival of autonomic reflexes

Schopenhauer worn a ring
Formed like the ouroboros
Circle of eternal truth
Undying flame of knowledge

Forswear alike materialisms
The Marxist armature
And the worship of market forces
Innumerable consumer particles

But oh the bright chevrons upon the plumdark wings
Blackbirds in migration
The cuttlefish’s round unfathomable eye
Its Broadway Melody of chase-lights