How to amaze
and be amazed.
The amazing king!-president!-primeminister!
interchangeable, incongruous but oh indeed
we have stood amazed.
Amaze us now you crowds!-gangs!-proles!
your poverty is the mother of a city’s
invention and Rome’s science is hapless,
confounded.
How to carry a single color
a single word
then turn these things
into death?
How to spin something from air
--a formula so perfect
we all are compelled to gnash teeth
for private families of fear?
We don’t know; must call it
magic
And for this, much
will burn at the stake.
