ATHENA (mind games)
…and you clear your embattled memory,
face by face, word by word, affair by affair,
arranging for encirclement of infinity, pure and guiltless
with a receptacle for the mind and a shell for the body.
Come, flower of Parthenon! Come, essence of God!
Come, furnish my interior! Come, make me whole!
Come, reveal the higher cause! Come, be my reason!
Come, for good or bad! Come, for champagne is chilled!
…and she comes, to no surprise, unannounced.
Face to face, mouth to mouth, deed to deed.
Declaring permanent parture from her Ever Consort,
Who’s busy as ever, who’s empty like no one else, now…
Leave, faithless whore! Leave, shame of my race!
Leave, maker of void! Leave, killer of meaning!
Leave, Eden’s serpent! Leave, for no one needs you!
Leave, for making God go mad! Leave, for cognac has warmed!