THE ESTABLISHED WISDOM

THE ESTABLISHED WISDOM

the established wisdom
strongly suggests
superglue to stick
the pieces together

from proposition to
conclusion
everything snapping
together like Lego bricks

thus
  the position will stand cast
iron logic being
a veritable castle

no chance out there
of (on the sly) some
slavery funnelled
in
   on the sly in
guise of
state of the art
       sweatshop

drawbridge portcullis
they know
what to
say
   how to read
everyman his rights

no way for
metaphor
     on their watch
to Derrida the
base

superstructure down
toppling
       so card
tower
   (who would
have thought?)

   to attack the base bring
card tower down
toppling

here in this bullpen
the rodeo of ideas
can so unsettle
that you
ride
  that buck bronco backwards

thinking this confederate
union cavalry
and
   go with the flow

see what history will make
of that
   Gettysburg
        last day

whose outcome prefigured
(curse
     of tremors in
the market, much
insider
trading)

a house divided
against itself
       if not as themselves houses
then perhaps
as
  safe as a bank

and there the ranks of the
blue and the gray
under different
white stars
      it is said

history
with many, many
more lessons than

sparing rod; spoiling child