First Gong Vol. 8: Thrust FIRST GONG 8 THRUST | Page 90

MAKER- - Andrew Whyte
Words put together in right order
Making them new
Constructed, arranged, made
The maker- a Poet!
A tabula rasa
Creation ex nihilo
Appropos of nothing
And out of the clear blue
The command to let, carried forward
The maker- the Maker!
North and south
Demarcated by a thinning vaginal line
Representing different universes
And versions of history
The Koran in the Atlantic
The Bible in the Desert
The maker- a lord of the realm
and his journaling concubine!
Rotund, resounding oratory
Calculating, conniving logic
Ponderous, pondering inevitability
And finally, received on a platter of wood
Independence or in dependence
The makers- Founding Fathers found wanting in the scripting of history.
Boys in jackboots
Who ought to be playing with guns
in the field, not negotiating rules of governance
Black gold, devil's excrement
Resource curse
Less than civil servants
Public servants with private interests
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