Poem: Historian

 

Historian

 

a puny broker

in the currency of human drama,

a nook-bound sage,

 

elucubrated a tome

on ignorance and avarice;

on war, the penchants of power,

and the human brain. 

 

the distilled, learned pith

of that intellecutal fate accompli

was that every treatise

and prolegomenon;

every work of art

and mise en scène;

rode on the back

of the political and the cruel.

 

society itself, somehow,

in a deviltry of circus trick,

balanced on the pinhead of one big missile,

nudged by factors of hate and hunger,

pleasure and greed, 

haggles of the insecure and sadomasochistic,

and a few dice rolls.

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