A SENSE OF HISTORY
When epistles were
Billets-doux, lace
Dripped from sleeves,
Slaves did the laundries
Gallants in gold silk
Discussed the crepuscular,
The muscular were in carnivals
Next to the freak show.
Politeness
Was noblesse oblige,
Husbands saved harsh vocabularies
For their wives, disenfranchised.
Is it now said
The Enlightenment and reason.
Prepared for fascism,
Auschwitz.
Duane Locke
Posted over on Writer's Eyes
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