Hierophany

 I
   FISA light is
          FISA light is
     knowing what you're
             knowing what you're
 thinking
      thinking.


 II
   I have been in bed
              late at night
          happy where I was.
     I got up
            and the cupboard poured me
                coffee.
        No one else was up yet,
               no one else was up yet.
            I was the only person awake
            in the entire world.


 III
    Moscow mule, moscow million.
 Moscow million, I
          don't want to fight you.
   My country hasn't
                       the troops.
       Contrary to what your man
       read over my shoulder
                    on the plane —
  The soldiers are not feeling the wood, —
    they're not feeling the wood, —
       they're felling the wood.
 You know,
           getting ready to write
           really old gold
           long old novels.
     Wire between their
         fingers & wire in
   their brains.   Wire, already,
   on their deforested teeth.


 IV
    Combined with other candidates' metal content.


 V
            It'll look like
              we're raising rhinos
              only we'll be painting the
     desert with watercolor
  we hear sung
      too late at night,
        "Mooie Kaap, Mooie Kaap...."
                 I should have known —
      dry canals signaled
       a drop in the wheelbarrow full
       of gold I got
             back when I thought
              it was worth
              $1000/oz.

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