Philosophical Visitation #38

Painting by George Grie


PHILOSOPHICAL VISITATION 38

All
The foppish, dandified and
Coxcombical classes are
Compelled

Due to obfuscations and obsessions
Of fatalism and fashion
This season

To build a Noah’s Ark
Place in backyard
By the swimming pool surrounded with roseate
Tiles
And by the silver-plated cook-out grill.

But after a diligent search of
all archives and Egyptian caves,
The blueprint
Could not be located.
The Ark must be authentic, not a surmise.
A surmise
Would be blasphemy
And mean banishment.

So those driven to be au courant
Look at their wristwatches and see tears
Instead of numbers.


Duane Locke

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