Speak

curious, the assumption
we have things to say.

let us ominously juxtapose:
we are too bored to stay,
too busy to go.

entertain this for a space.
what things have we to say?
truth? as told
by Kennedy or Keats?
laughably i propose
we continue to juxtapose:
speak beauty to power!

no, no--call this unintended consequence
of our ancestors' lofty dreams for what it is.
the educated masses remain illiterate:
despite our many means to say them,
we have no things to say.




october 2013