Pandemic Triptych II: Duplicity

The puppet master’s driven duplicitous chaos

Crawls across the page for all the world to see,

Raw in the puppet’s incompetence.

Fight the pattern, defy form, gift chaos.

We wrestle.

 

We shall not sit in complicit silence.

Iago rapes truth:

Forcing lies into the lube less tightness of the endless hole.

In thin places,

Anyone can do fast and deep,

But skill delivers long and slow.

 

To tear.

To dismember.

But depth is stamina.

The enigmatic English dismember[i],

Stands jowl by cheek remembered.

In the Miltonic caverns of your egregious hearts you know this is true.

 

Unleash the well springs of our hearts.

Weep for perfidious Albion.

 

 

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© Lottie E. Allen

The Feast of St David, 1 March

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-One

 

 

 



[i] The English word “dismember” is the opposite of “remember”.

 

 

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