Susan Scutti
In this place of delusion and hook along the Hudson
Men consummate unstarched needs
Without recourse to published laws
Or interference from the civility
Men consummate unstarched needs
While you live oblivious to the unseen
Or to interference from the civility
You feel a twinge someplace deep
While you live oblivious to the unseen
Lilies fester beneath cumulus and leaf
You feel a twinge someplace deep —
Everything that lives must eat.
Lilies fester beneath cumulus and leaf
While congregations form barbaric shape
Everything that lives must eat
Your circumstance requires mass-productions
While congregations form barbaric shape
While diagnosis persists and elimination falters
Your circumstance requires mass-productions —
Restraint is no longer the essence of morality
While diagnosis persists and elimination falters
Without recourse to published laws
Restraint is no longer the essence of morality
In this place of delusion and hook along the Hudson
Works very well all the way through!
Very very wonderful poem in a form that is strangely hard to employ convincingly. But this is beautiful and I felt no difficulty. Smooth and yet probing. Brava!
Beautiful and feels very natural, not at all forced. But I’m sure this effortless effect was challenging. Yes, Brava!!