208th Chorus

Anciently in cities
       men have been sitting
       in waiting rooms
       in the night bloated
       with food and alcohol
       waiting waiting waiting
       as though the city existed not.
They are so old.
       They think all alike.
             I’ve seen them die in chairs
             Quietly in cities they never planned.
             Seen them sing in saloons
             For muffled uproars.
             Seen men in coffee houses
             Shoot the opium cup
             With Greeks of Brotherhood.
             Aztec Pulque Distributors
             Rembrandtian city committees
             And unions of Masons –
Shoot the sperm cup to me, Jim,
These partitioned Anglo Spanese
Singing sneerers perturbing
You in the background
Are your father’s kindly
             buriers


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