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“Civilization” is the soothing notion that, in it, natural
callousness has been successfully quarantined, but oligarchs
are out and loose, as loose as our vehicle’s wheels.
……………………………………………………………. —Roshi Bob
A cat on the center pillow of a couch
looks out through windows facing south
with the fierce frustration of an indoor cat
who preys through glass
The squalor of first spring just after the snow has passed
fills her gaze, pierces drabness for anything that moves
beyond the breezy animation of pine limbs and spruce:
the quick jerk or dart of something sentient on the loose
which, unlike a couch cat, lives with the threat
of spacious freedom, in the wind, on the prowl
without the leash of civil cover,
who scuttles among the hungry
with a life only as long as its cunning,
whose liberty is cramped only by the
cunning liberty of others
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Jim Culleny
4/8/13
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