NO ONE TOLD US

NO ONE TOLD US

no one told us
the seven deadlies
(in every shade
and every nuance)
would pitch up
clothed
in tailored suits

rock up
with college degrees
(though here
in truth
a bit scraping
the barrel)
but the Devil’s glitter
giving them
a bit
of the look
of lords of light
somewhat sullied and
muddied wrapped
in the hot bulbs and
strip lights
of their
demonic tinseltown

and here they
are
spouting the golden
wisdom which cannot
but
dumb us down

hit a level
never
before seen in
a species

consensus, total faith,
spreading
like a virus, a plague

a thing riddled with bacilli
of beyond Biblical proportions

no one
having told us
how beautiful they
would all seem