countries
don't even outlast their "natural givens"
topography made to change
how do you expect them to ever outlast
their very own constituted 'moral' precepts?
words themselves always align with the most forceful other,
in the small office, in the big office, in scripted texts
like dough that makes the elements rise
like a boys choir
voices rise to a maximum
an ordered song masterly prearranged
made fit for boys as if fit for war
followed by failure
beyond silence:
'the man' falls to a minimum
then much less