Saturday, November 19, 2022

Tumbrils Rattling Ideas to Their Deaths - poem

 

Tumbrils Rattling Ideas to Their Deaths

 

 

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

 

-attributed to Gustav Mahler

(But no one sources the quote so maybe it’s from someone else)

 

 

That which is good is now tumbriled through the streets

The carter following the map upon his MePhone

Or rather the map upon their MePhone

Now that one man must not, dare not be he

 

That which is true is stood upon the gallows

It may tweet aloud for a moment or two

But weighted down with the burdens of trends

It must immediately be jerked up short

 

That which is beautiful is burnt as fuel -

All sacrificed to Moloch, loving and cruel

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