Wayne Amtzis
This Seasons Finale
How readily, the orphaned Demos
discards its rights
From “skirmish” to “rampage”
rumor, on rat-wings,
Between History’s Endgame
skirrs…
and today’s barricade,
As each sideways shuffling step
displaces the last,
this season’s Finale…
(in a vignette
entitled A little cup of brandy
or the romance of power
and pain, safe and snug in body bags,
the Interrogated
hang upside-down like those
sleepy bats
bestride palace walls)
is, as always,
the appreciative
audience, so much like dolphins
clapping fins, citizens all,
brandish this little cup of brandy
(empty of course )
to salute life as it drips away
To salute power
as it stays
(This season's finale is as always)burlesque
Kathmandu 11/2003 - 5/2004