Pluto's Altar

Michael Ferro

Braid your tongue to speak much words
Bleach your thoughts to the opaque mind
Tie your soul to circumstance
Cleanse your eyes and end the dream
Reconcile my importance in the binds of a finite world
Man’s important to himself, finds himself entropied

The artist is not the sage, he is caught up in himself
The poet will not come to reign, his realm is merely words
Without them we are lost,
“What we have is what we want”
May your logic never fail
There is nothing -- total sum loss

Speak of transcending Babylon, leave the earthly ways
Braid my tongue to speak the words and leave this world behind
This all seems so good and true
But so corrupt, caught up in life

Alone in a vast America, millions without a prayer
Lain by Pluto’s altar, in high tech gilded halls