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DARWIN & Company
by David Sutherland
Under false witness diligent workers
with honey-combed hair, ruddy cheeks and wire frame
labor with the scrawled consternation
of indeterminate cares.
We must work it now ! Keep it to a pulse,
a flash of incandescence.
Polite affections: hellos, goodbyes, the weather
pass under the illumination of a fireflies light.
Or say something,
promise all inalienable rights,
hidden agendas, covert action,
hard lines of backs turning front.
Politician, Pharisee, Judge
roll-call;
to the birds and bees and ants
that line our trampled coronations,
our destiny underfoot.
And pride's perfunctory curtsy
spillover slogans of the moment,
are testaments of will
that sponge-up the mental lozenges
and burn a hole in the lining
going down.
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