Mariel’s Reviews > Selected Poems: 1931 - 2004 > Status Update

"Man has been given to understand / that he lives only by the grace of those in power. / Let him therefore busy himself sipping coffee, catching butterflies. / Who cares for the Republic will have his right hand cut off. / And yet the earth merits a bit, a tiny bit, of affection. Not that I take too seriously consolations of nature, and baroque ornaments, the moon, chubby clouds..."

"We, whose cunning is not unlike despair." dang