Epigram To My (Corporate) Employer

". . . to thee particularly and to all the Volsces

great hurt and mischief . . ."

---William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, IV:5

 

I thank Christ that all vengeance is . . . The Lord's,
according to the Scriptures' sound accords.
If your deserts were mine to mete, my curses
on you would shatter countless universes.
So pleased you are with inhumanity,
you cannot grasp your foul inanity---
to the extreme that any sort of hatred
of you seems like a duty, pure and sacred.
I serve you now, but shortly mean to sever
that dread burden . . . soon . . . and for---by God!---ever.
 
Starward
Author's Notes/Comments: 

I first saw the epigraph supra at the head of T. S. Eliot's suppressed poem, "Ode," which appeared in an early collection and was later withdrawn, most likely because the details were far too intimate and autobiographical.

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