Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Those Bipartisan Gravediggers of the Good and Souls

 

Modern cities have grown into giant tombs

that caught and buried the Chinese nun

Zhenru’s “pure breeze and bright moon,”

having wholly scraped the sky and stars!

 

But what then happened to the clouds transmuted

into women’s skirts that used to unseal downwards

towards blooms and buds and florets set to scoff—

at concrete blocks of the remorseless and soulless?

 

Didn’t they raise the bar in dingy downtown taverns

or fly off as corporate leaflets about season sales?

What makeup is to women, to politicians are the words

 

or rather those familiar phrases they are paid to evoke

so that they can put our innate divine minds to rest,

these Bipartisan Gravediggers of the Good and Souls.

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