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
