smug ecstasies

by Roberto Lavidez

dreams

populated

with fragments

of experience

hinting

at a pipeline

to profundity

contriving

to eliminate

the residues

in smug ecstasies

of knowingness

nourished by

permanent anguish

attacked

as castles

in the air

to equivocate

seems churlish

following the

train of thought

a deep reservoir

of subversive truth

in an atmosphere

of unrelieved

moral squalor

this bold linking

of cleverness

and stupidity

praise and blame

simultaneously

clear and crazed

a saturnalia

of rough justice

producing a

lasting hangover

of sliced eyeballs

and soft watches

the endless journey

of a sleeping mind

somehow managed

to hold itself together

into poisoned oblivion

and the surrounding

miasma confronting

a genuine threat

beyond a formidable

inbuilt capacity

to gloss over its

own consequences

it is quite possible

that the end

of history

is in the offing

©robertolavidez2013