mysterious case

by Roberto Lavidez

vast crowds

roaming a city

festooned with

inscrutable slogans

against a sequence

of incomprehensible

noises conveying

disquietude about

man’s capacity

for faltering

like a morality

tale of the flesh

and the devil

seemed lit with

an inner violence

of excitement

the riddle of the

unintelligible and

mysterious case

of a visiting comet

whose balefulness

hangs closer

night by night

seduced by

the lure of

spiritual

solidarity

from within

the inexorable

connection

between the

womb and

the tomb

the thought

that one must

first endure

torment

to achieve

ecstasy

unjust suffering

prompts feelings

of terror and awe

the universal

good that could

not be divorced

from one’s own

personal wrongs

how dependent

good is on evil

evil on good

no disgust

without desire

no desire

without disgust

there were

a few little

glimmers

high up in the

rubbish heaps

of civilization

launched into

life by obscurities

and puzzles

subsequently

embellished with

further fabrications

dreadful because
of the fluencies

so easily available

on a bright

green lawn

under thunderous

and glaring clouds

a vicious spiral

steadily raising

tension among

blabbing

ideological mouths

of great kindness

and bestial cruelty

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