As Moses carried shame within
Substituting consciousness for
The mere pejoration of the assembly
So we have called to order
In the bright corridors of wakefulness
The sessions of efficiency
Importing the policies and procedures
Of this spectral instrumental assemblage
Which we perceive in our meals
Our dwellings pastimes and transportation
A process that begins with conception
And continues through all the evasions
The ambivalence including death
How the youthful strivers hone
The apparatus of expansion
The aging functionaries adopt
The defensive posture of prey
The senators employ the last strength
To erect the gantry of dwindling possibility
All blocking out the scene
Of lurid transfiguration
Upon the backlit stage
Vision not sight
In living color
Willingly all too willingly
Our colloquy the vessel
Of a new and ancient covenant