Midnight on Tuesday
By Nikhilesh Dholakia
Listless putrid streams of bigotry
Meandering
Through jungles of ignorance
Discovering
Placid pools of obscurantism
Masking
Furiously swirling eddies
Of Byzantine beliefs
Merging, creating
Powerful conservative currents
Channels of deceit
Conspiratorially planned
Meticulously concealed
Subtle
Subterranean
Collecting
The menacing currents
Creating
A fervent tributary
Into the raging river
Of greed
Unbridled
Unprincipled
Shimmering
Glimmering golden waves
Of covetous, barricaded, opulent monopolies
Covering sinister undertows
Of exploitative bloodlust
Avarice
Masquerading as imagination
Cowardice
Promenading as determination
Duplicity
Strutting as resolution
Rushing headlong
Plunging precipitously
Into a Niagara
Of imperious descent
Of ominous omnipotence
Of arrogant pretense
Profiting
Enthralling
Lavishing
Showering
With black gold
Conniving opportunists
Bewitching
Berating
Haranguing
Driving
Compelling
Lulling
Pulling
America
Into
An ocean of global oblivion
Kingston, Rhode Island, November 3, 2004
Listless putrid streams of bigotry
Meandering
Through jungles of ignorance
Discovering
Placid pools of obscurantism
Masking
Furiously swirling eddies
Of Byzantine beliefs
Merging, creating
Powerful conservative currents
Channels of deceit
Conspiratorially planned
Meticulously concealed
Subtle
Subterranean
Collecting
The menacing currents
Creating
A fervent tributary
Into the raging river
Of greed
Unbridled
Unprincipled
Shimmering
Glimmering golden waves
Of covetous, barricaded, opulent monopolies
Covering sinister undertows
Of exploitative bloodlust
Avarice
Masquerading as imagination
Cowardice
Promenading as determination
Duplicity
Strutting as resolution
Rushing headlong
Plunging precipitously
Into a Niagara
Of imperious descent
Of ominous omnipotence
Of arrogant pretense
Profiting
Enthralling
Lavishing
Showering
With black gold
Conniving opportunists
Bewitching
Berating
Haranguing
Driving
Compelling
Lulling
Pulling
America
Into
An ocean of global oblivion
Kingston, Rhode Island, November 3, 2004
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