Category: ohthatwright

LIMBO, old invention to help theodicy along, seeing
REVUE of souls passing before anxious inward eyes.
TOTEM and taboo—so, Freud might analyze prior belief, throwing
ELBOW of modernist at prior imagination, in favor of his own.

GODLY is next to cleanly, or is that reversed?
LAGER is a beer that takes time.
STEEL wool is what he uses to clean the vats.
GROWLs to himself to try to keep things clean to start another batch.

CROSS beam holds snake looking mangled.
MOULT the least of its injuries.
STAIN of snake blood seeping down
TATTY pole. Look and be set free.

ETHIC: a thing, it seems, describing a system for others.
ALIKE for self? Hardly. Self is under the rule of self. But they? From
BIRTH they owed it to be good, to be right, to serve a higher good.
SLAIN, though, the good for self. Good is what the self wants.

STOUT is what he’s become, in latter decades.
GROUT and tile is what he does in a day’s work,
RALPH. You need a re-tile? Call Ralph.
RIGOR and care, and speed. That’s Ralph with tile.

SCOUR the world for own advantage.
BLUSH never, say sorry never, admit other views never,
WHINE, claim persecution, slap twice for every slap.
ELIDE at every turn every glint of good a life might reflect.

TRITE is easy, so is
SLEEK. Surfaces are everywhere. The
ALTAR of Surface always bears a flame.
VOTER will vote for simple and easy. How do I dive into depths?

QUASI ok life is mine, but there’s the rub.
PLUSH life, enough comforts, enough pleasures to feel plush. Yet:
CHUTE of life is one way and steep. So which to emphasize?
SOAPY baths, long and plush, or a cold shower that wakes me up to present, to eternity?