Twice

A poem for the wide-eyed drink pourer…

A curse on you and I

An Apple, a peach

in any case, a lie

Till and plow and conquer

Subdue matter, the mother

Wake her up, divide her her secrets

It’s light that blinds the eye

You toil and whine

Of the curse divine?

Center stage, this ape

while he calls us His kind?

And his god is him?

And what am I?

Whisper of conscience

Apple of his eye

And now I labor

Twice the curse;

Split open, sown fields

And carry the purse?

No. I prefer not.

But if it be so

Twice the winnings for twice the curse

And power, god dammit!

for this, my woe