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PAUSE–not likely, deliberation not priced in,
POUND, more his speed, he blusters for the win.
GLOAT, exactly his speed, prince of the zero sum.
EXALT himself he will, enslaved to his own drum.

WOVEN to outshine Bayeux’s, tapestry resplendent with
OLIVE, indigo, goldenrod, vermillion, lilac, each thread a
PLANK in structure that towers to the eye. The work
OUTGOes cloth: fabric becomes theater, becomes cosmos.

‘BEVEL out stone’s jagged edge’-thought which perhaps
BEGAT art’s momentum, smoothing sharpness from the hunt to other use.
BRAIN stitching connections beyond subsistence:
EARTH a stage, a mirror, a canvas, a manifold of signs.

AGENT in place, sembling normal life, chameleon morphed to background,
SNAKY intentions slumbering, no sly arguments about good and evil,
FRILLs of markets instead, keeping up with the Joneses on gadgets and cars.
BLEAT on, those fools around him. Agent waits and hides grim smile.

SLUNK through grimy alleys into warehouse,
GOLEM still in crate, me seeking words, drafting words,
PAPER strewn with Hebrew–which the word of waking?
DIZZY sense: I am one syllable off and so clay will not shift.

UNCLE Claudius knows not that I know.
BEGUN, with father’s ghost appearing: dread,
GROWN now, till no redemption path remains.
SAFER to be born a serf to serfs with no ambition.

ADEPT in ordering our affairs, or not, yet comes the time:
PLEAD with our maker, if we can name him, for healing, for more days.
COMET appears and carves its warning path. A table of precepts,
DECALog’s worth, arraigns, heralds judgment, forces pleas for grace.

THROB and thrum of party carries on evening air.
COYLY, night withholds its message; instead
ENSUEs variety: many sleep, some make love, some fret, some few slink.
ABOVE, eyes needing no light trace a story we cannot see through the dark.

ATTIC: top of a house in Athens, doubly denoted,
EBONY: and ivory living in perfect harmony on my piano,
STAFF: You. Cannot. Pass! Thunk.
CONCH: Oh, Piggy-crushed by the woe of a fallen world.