The day Apollo traded his pipe for an appearance on the

Eurovision Song Contest: “Living on Borrowed Time.”

Absolutism isn’t the solitary pursuit it once seemed.

Out of hours, display receipt. There’re other words for con-

tainment, she said, but none of them fit the way you do.

We used to go down to the border & look at El Salvador,

faint memories of a Golden Age. Forty years in the wilderness

& this’s all they’ve got to show for themselves?

Her granddad was on the Kent State firing squad.

Later they built vertical ghettos to the moon –

“cash-for-chaos” package deals to the dark side

                                     (EVERYTHING’S PERMITTED

                                     BECAUSE NOTHING’S POSSIBLE).

And all that, knowingly, in full view of their god.