Defensive weapons that can do offense in a pinch
Behind the mask of bourgeois rectitude
Torrents of derision at the number 13
Greek phalanx Roman maniple
Creeping jungle fighters itching for a fire fight
Bivouacked in cortical region
Serve waiting at the ready
While Galileo needed only a glimpse
Of the instruments of torture
To effect his recantation
Which he then recanted
Of the plain facts of the neighborhood
And we attack our loved ones and ourselves
With a viciousness that must remain
Concealed but available
Acknowledged but unspoken
The gross self-indulgence of an infant
Savagery in the seat of reason
In the very heart of earthly erudition
Remainders castoffs rejects and trash
From the age of the giants
The age of brutes