oh how they shine
in the firmament
and elegant furniture
of geometry

but

would they say
then that what had
been
could have been

some rude graffito
on the barndoor
or even outhouse
of a fading penumbra

that silent faceless pilgrimage
on the way to skull rock

a chicken scratch
upon eternity

and that the fairest
muse
was a frog-faced
Auffrischung Magenfeld
with a nail
through her skull
and a tiny pig
for a sceptre
or ornament
representing
the primeval chaos
of tongues

and that her magical brooch
was a rotary
chopping blade
etched with the sacred
names of atomism

which like the names
of the fallen soldiers
in the battle of the
Devil's backbone

are largely unknown
except to scholars
of the lore

of the 'Civil War'

a term
we just might call
an oxymoron

as if the breath
of history itself
is a grotesque
stupidity

grew some

as if the innocent
singing molecules
which give us
'life'

are both dumber
and more beautiful
than

Great Chief Language-No[i]se.

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