strepitus mundi

(the martin victorious)

prone sosia in admixtum pugna
by the projection of a doppelgänger
off the cuff a detail
deepfake classicism

mount rushmore by the hand
of radiant polygamy
rustic runs the veinery of cults
and so the cufflinks hang more heady
they're stone heads

tom sawyer paints the fence
but what ancient syrian demon will inhabit
so gracefully the water sleeves of paint
which miraculously spill out
into this calligraphy (who cares)
old man demaenetus stars in an all-star cast
in this weary fabula palliata

who is grumpy for the winter to end
the snow is a richly empty color
who is grumpy for the hot summer to terminate
the sun gives birth to milk in the veins
galen dons the mask of artemona
for the sixteen century long play
captured in shirts and the blood
of the spectacular

the result is a materialistic abuse
of conventional rules
and who says anthropology is anything more
than the study of the vicissitudes
of conventionality as depicted
in the stains of the various collars:

sikon and getas go to knemon's house
to torment him when he wakes
they tease and trick him into joining
the rest of the wedding party celebrations
night shirts are long very long
each cult remains a character
and all the characters are each a cult
whose members (ancient and noble cells)
form the body of pan or maybe
a whirring sound like a bullroarer

time is original
strepitus mundi