Apes of Apology

one third of this life is at war

on the side of  investments and inventions

based on loud mouthed south philly men

scared sons, the kind of who prove far easier

to pass through the eye of a hurricane

than through the pages of a bible

but please make sure not to recycle it

ground quakes & do you know the language of heaven

it’s a thug life at risk under illiterate stars

we read the birds as they drop from europe
another whispered hallelujah chorus of poor kids

sing out like weeds in a hated garden plot

behind grey mansions like de maurier

i am in the ghost of your first wife