Monday, March 30, 2020

Catching A Glimpse Of Evil, Revised For The Plague Times




From But Glimpse Learn To Recognize Evil, A Warning 
by a female Faust

i could be you just as easily — you 
could be me just as well —
we could be through with this misery
we could have done with this Hell

each one of us already knows how
& even though some of us don’t understand
the pretended ignorance shows
now — we can see all such traitors are damned

if ever you get like me beat down & frightened
overwhelmed, overcome by the fear
that maybe the world can’t be made right
in enough time — to avert what is near — 

& then — as if on cue — to save you from despondence
at long last — no, not even a bell
do remember please our correspondence
so this won’t be a 'so' i’d have been able to tell you

springing eternal, confused you confide
in sight seen as if near, more likely than far
in hearing but talk,  you — still —  take a side
you still don’t know how to tell  “ser” from “estar”

because those who refuse to be saved
have been Evil — well — all along — 
take a proud satisfaction depraved
in choosing senselessly yet — to do — wrong….

revised again for the plague times 3/2020







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