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
poems 2 die for 