Washed & Scrubbed (+3)

Intellectual hygiene…

the Poet declines

 

That dull antiseptic,

that deadens your mind

 

Once washed and then scrubbed,

the truth a charade

 

Academic consensus

—the Muse in her grave

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

 

 

Until Gone

 

Old memory written,

new words to a song

 

Forgotten, remembered

—sung once and then gone

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2019)

 

 

 

 

The Last Laugh

 

Outside the backdrop of the given world,

the emptiness fled

And deep in the recesses of what’s never to be,

contradiction fed

Far beyond meaning and stated intent,

all reasons turned to dust

With nothing to prove and less to embrace

—the laugh at last on us

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)

 

 

Masks On Display

 

Can talking about things,

ever make them real

 

To describe and define,

what we then try to feel

 

A mirage of old theories,

their masks on display

 

Do ideas have substance

—beyond what we say

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)