Enclosures

The conference table

barges violently into structures 

with all its paraphernalia -

mics and files and gadgets.

Everyone listens carefully, attentively.

If one looks closely

there are even rapporteurs.

The officiating nature is hard to lose.

The only thing now is

to decide the agenda of the ritual.

But that is when the garnished

meal gets served

and everyone 

starts chomping on it like humans

- the usual.

The tables are thumped yet again,

mics erupt in high pitched tones

- wailing.

In this melee,

nobody bothers to hear the vote of thanks

presented by the ever blabbering home loan.

The conference table

barges violently into structures -

wrecks into our homes

as an oaken pestilence.

Interstices

While we pretend 

to understand world affairs,

indulge in 

minting money, 

overthrowing postions,

manipulating data, 

confabulating politics, 

somewhere,

in an unclaimed touristy place,

polar bears roll on ice,

ants laugh at diabetics,

mountain goats defy gravity,

elephants play in mud,

spiders dangle above cleanliness,

pandas rip bamboos apart,

a little child learns cursive alphabets or

discovers the joy of eating ice cream.

Somewhere else, as well

a poet writes a poem,

that nobody

would ever read,

and smiles -

precisely for the same reason.

E Unibus Pluram

When a Politician

Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he multiply her
Face into a crowd...?
- W. H. Auden

When a Policeman
Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he inquire her
Of recent behaviour...?

When a Professor
Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he demote her
to the second author...?

When a Doctor
Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he diagnose her
In his area of specialization...?

When a Scientist
Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he patent his
observations about her...?

When a Librarian
Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he stack her
At arm's length...?

When an Artist
Dreams about his sweetheart,
Does he paint her
Deliberately abstract...?

Or 

are we all,
in various degrees,
Dreamers of the truest kind -
letching for Power.