We are to understand the mythicality
Of consistency’s hobgoblin
But the qualifier foolish would appear essential
And how does one widely distinguish
Which smooth aggregates might be the stupid ones
A splendid waterfall that appears in spring
The retrograde of Venus
A languorous nude ensconced in a profusion of flowers
Domina Harlequin hully-gullying with Freddie the Freeloader
To leave the onlookers feeling buzzed and complacent
The one wren to rule them all
In a world in which humanoid beings
Possess innate powers unknown to mortal men
As the ability by virtue of certain organelles
To stay on target stay on target
And airliners are furnished with sword holders
Those other meteoric appurtenances
As the violent the transgressive the erotic
To an abrupt work ethic askesis
To renounce punctuation orthogrphy or self-regard
Commitment to stultifying routines
Precisely to jettison at length and with unbearable irony the 9-to-5
Semi-consensual capitulation to tautology
And Gradgrind wanted Facts-cts-cts-cts deracinated denatured
Detached from buddy-buddy integument
But an endurant cohort has emerged
Well accustomed from role-playing
Big small fuzzy bear fat frog
Or influencing or being influenced
Cooperating with the nature-like excrescences
Image soundtrack and fillable form
Hair product or cosmetic oral fixation
Tinkering with the hereditary car
As once qualified for legitimate résumé enhancement
But not all Baby Boomers loved peace and love
Real estate seminarians and the Amateur Aviation Cadets
The cadre militant of the casual diffident
How do these adumbrations differ
From the luthier’s diminutive purfling chisel
The long and grinding rotor that snakes the pipe
The horticultural emendations at the country club
Not a day goes when the emptor
Is not called upon to observe the caveat
To drink the acrid wine of disillusionment
To endorse the refusal of ambiguity
To parrot a parody
But they knew the job was dangerous when they took it
For the peril is part of the charm
And the sun rises on all alike
To strive to seek to find and Not-t-t-t to yield
And it is the privilege of privilege to relish a challenge
Red flags white flags flags of retraction and dispersal
Flags of couple color as a brinded cow
Demonic commination or emollient settlement
Choose a side or a side will choose you
Or not
Maybe that’s what votive lassitude means
Earth has not any Thing-ng-ng-ng to show more fair
Except in the fields in the mountains the oceans the forests the starry sky
Seasons of mist and seasons of conflagration
Loving together suffering together
In the holy communion of family and friends
In weddings funerals contentious Thanksgivings
In our wishes our fears our lusts our joys our angry outbursts