Napoleon's Dream

Cascading chaos of calendric years 

Lighting candles for the same false

Furious wake of confusion in the sky 

Whirling in circles, Hegel’s rigid dialectic 

A shamanic sham; what a shame!

History moves not in a straight line, but revolves 

Like the cycles of the seasons

Or some Repogle Globe…

The clashing currents of time 

Rain pell-mell on our haloed heads

Who then can tell

The difference between Zeus 

and a thunderstorm?

If Gods die when we kill them, 

When then will our lifeline end?

Etched like the rings in a tree it remains

Only to be cut down, engulfed in absolving flame.

What to say of that chiaroscuro clash?

I care not for its tedious, swirling ways

I’d rather bring my giant hands

Crashing down from the sky 

To rip through telephone wires

Disconnecting lines, 

Disuniting the teleology of time 

Smashing the last filthy breath of life

From the endless cylindrical vessel 

We call histoire: what a story, really!