Sylvia Plath

[Glenn Scheper]

Is this not yet another evidence of poets' and prophets'
foreknowledge of the WTC cataclysm & epochal denouement?

 Doomsday

 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans

 Atop the broken universal clock:

 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

 Out painted stages fall apart by scenes

 While all the actors halt in mortal shock:

 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.

 Streets crack through in havoc-split ravines

 As the doomstruck city crumbles block by block:

 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

 Fractured glass flies down in smithereens;

 Our lucky relics have been put in hock:

 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans.

 The monkey's wrench has blasted all machines;

 We never thought to hear the holy cock:

 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

 Too late to ask if end was worth the means,

 Too late to calculate the toppling stock:

 The idiot bird leaps out and drunken leans,

 The hour is crowed in lunatic thirteens.

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Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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