transformed humans
because one never meets a human
that does speak of itself
never of itself,
as an unpruned creature,
but always institutionally domesticated
from within an unitary language
manufactured language
copy-righted by the state
between heaven and hell
copy-righted by the religious powers
that preceded all 'secular' states
a pendulum that easily measures
the state of democracy
as if a forced imitation spinach
undigestible
a menu bereft
yet liberated from diversity
a steering force
towards calamity
one hears officialdom speaking
one sees through these agents
agents of state
and of religion
to come more and more rejuvenated
language turns uniform, complicit
agents of agents over-rule
a congruent acting that speaks
not of itself
passengers in a train
by some force of form and norm
succumb
to an institutionalized uni-directionality