Secrets

                                                                       

Who spied on who?

On whom did you spy?

Who lied about who spied 

Who spied on us

Defiled our innocence 

Noble Roman to hairy Gaul

Split the Empire

Breached our Wall!

Who lied about who spied
Who spied on us

When we
Never spied!

Besides, who dares spy

When the pie is not wide?

Who made unknown known 

And the known-unknowns known?

Where can he fly

Who deserves to die!

He is the immoral eye

Huckster of lies.

Yet even
Drunken hackers

Look for a first fact:
A man who won't talk to his X

Would rather not conceive
 What's stuck in her craw,

Just in case
He did the sticking.

We are here
To save you from evil-doers

Unless you guess 
We are the evil-doers:

In which case
You are superfluous. 

For every adult 
Must abandon their parents,

Whose lies and spies
Set them asunder

Desert the family
Or else die from lies: 

Priam's cloud swirls 

Counterclockwise

Where the faithful thrive
Round the black-box

Of perfidious 

Maryland's Kabba,  

A burning-bush of asphalt
Against Paraguayan eyes

Who would lie about who spies
When they spy on us!

Who lied when spies eyed
The final secret:

The formula 

Tapped by a Penguin's foot 

On Greenland's slush,

The secret place,

The grave

Of Crazy-Horse,

Chief Joesph's traitorous tongue,

Mark Twain's bitter smoke.

A College of Cardinals 

In red slippers

Could not uphold the Shroud of Turin

And wave the bloody nails 

Better than this unavailing corpse

Conceals the closing-curtain.

What does the enemy want?
The enemy envies what you envy.

The enemy is
He who says there is no enemy.

The enemy is
The idea of secrecy. 

The enemy is
The oppression of talent.

Ennui!

Ennui is the Devil's heart!

For once spoken

It is possible to ask

And well might we ask:

Why men and women

And women and men

Spy love or money

As if it were real;

Or know

How

That Ancient curse

The State:

A childish dream

A dreary eye
Stealing 

The garden,

Goes on and wearily on,

Though none can answer

Wherefore, or why.

Will Morgan

June 22, 2013