Sunday, June 24, 2007

An author's unacknowledged irony


Everybody's superior
To everybody
Til the tv celeb
Arrives

Ascendancy trades
Between floors
Between times
On one-way conveyances

Never down

But now
Clacking prams
And HIM

HIS people

Scrabbling to the rostrum
Low-heeled and gulping
Piped air
Confers all that HE
Intended

Vastness of place and
Order
The supremacy of Man

Something about the virute
Of humility


2 comments:

psychodougie said...

v. good

been away, hence no blog-watching.

keep it up.

Lunar Brogue said...

Ta.

And the inspiration? A wander through Eastgardens.

The reference to "unacknowledged irony"? My own bourgeois sense of superiority and otherness.

Rhetorical questions?