Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Outside the Gates of the Tower of Babel

Prometheus Burns
flies by the gibbet:
Ravens hop in the cage.

One pecks his eye.
The next caws a reply
to a word he never said.

And when offended,
Mister Burns's skeletal remains
click a witticism

From a chip clipped
to his rotting brain.
The words all gone, he's naught but rags and chains.

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