This, the Delinquent Hoopoe

"Be among men like bee among birds."
-Ali ibn Abi Taleb, Commander of the Faithful


Even if we could
we couldn't decipher,
the great things
that are happening,
tremendous machinations
can be heard
there and then.
So close.
The Beast could be really
rather small, already here
and like the seeds
inside the earth
for thousands of years
ready to rise
up and escape detection
while everything is delayed
and might be stopped
and the world is flattened again.
The streetlamp buzzes,
tamps itself out, exhausted
from the night or ashamed
in the aboriginal
text of the dawn
one more time
as the Great Society
delicately edits
and supervises
each sunlit page.


http://masum.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/prophet-suleiman-as-and-the-hoopoe-bird/