(3rd week of September 2020)

Appetites

Illusory indictments
of the human soul's
enlightenment
by reason-touting
tyrants
enslaving the future
of expression
as some kind of
indiscretion
are a shadow
thin as paper
and inked as light
as wafers
satisfying only
ever slightly
an appetite
for favors
and a thirst
for control