Civil memory loss

 The incomprehensible absence

Of the nocturnal sounds,

The child's pure ignorance

Of vain tragedy's bounds.

The weighty, grave presence

Of hysterical walls,

The pulse's defiance

Of cause that appalls.

The brutal cold-water plunge

Of the spirit's typhoon,

The lamp's sudden lunge

At misery's noon.

The frenzied non-being

Of verses forced,crude,

The bleeding of seeing

For useless sanctitude.

The loveless rebellion

Of honest,stark brews,

The phalanx's felon

For a counterfeit muse.

The blatant loud clamor

Of TV-made streaks,

The people's deep slumber

Through poverty's peaks.

And the uneven barbarity

In a statesman's fine speech,

In the depth of the garden,

Timeless vagrants reach