A Venomous Silkworm

I despise these degrees of freedom

Said the neo Diderot and the archaic David

I envy the liveliness of the termites

Said the neo Valimiki and the primordial Achilles

How could they embrace a poetic saint in trance

Wondered the venomous Rama and the Venerable Lama

Who saw the torrid life a prince and the princess

Wicked was the Neanderthal Freudian and Digital Darwin

Over and above my sheaths

An albatross is savaged and an ancient mariner is saved

These pearls of wisdom and crowded imaginations

They strike digits and cubits of wealth in times of diarrhea

Astral mathematics, astralopithicus, astronomic gaze

They were the gargantuan invaders of the Gregorian calender

Rest is known to us, first word is born as a worm hole

No one need to be a snake charmer or a sand miner to unravel the lantern under the rooftop
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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