Vergil managing the business of the farm;
Bronk in the lumberyard, Eliot at the bank,
Mallarme in the classroom, Stevens' on Executive suite:
these, inherently insufficient, gave way to more
satisfaction provided by their Poetry:
which cancelled the unravelings of entropy
and preserved in their soul's an integrity
that will not allow even the possibility
of the hovering approach of impotent flaccidity,
and the wreaking of havoc and harm,
the absence of presence, the silence and the blank,
or the delusions and temptations of conceit.
Here and now, in this local reality,
the vagaries that have haunted and tainted identity
are resolved in the screen name's precision
which achieves the preparatory completion
beyond temptation's too persuasive perfidy
or the clodhoppings of old prudes' and haters' galore.
J-Called
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