Prevent Despair
(On the Passing of a Colleague)
'tis better to be blind to injustice than deaf to suffering,
Though blindness is bad enough.
The protocols, the transcript, the pomp and imprisonment
The hat in hand, or a more tenacious defense?
The masons had such simple tools
and build such grand cathedrals.
But now the altar is askew, a crack runs through,
from Portal to Sentimental Scales.
Whether constellations or juggernauts or jackals on meat
Always remember to ask of the stand
This most important query of the contendere at hand:
"Please reveal to us, once and for all, who, truly, did frew dat ham?"
