Enclosure

let’s start off with a story
underneath a simple sky
we do not know the endings
we are ignorant to try
we’ve begun the preparation
we have cleared it all away
and now we’ll need a less
atmospheric surface for this play
soon we’ll interpret the semaphore symbols
in the reflected atmospheric wave
soon we will learn by allegory
but first we have to build the cave

we’ll run a clear path to water
on the midline of the harborway
unobstructed by branch and corner
the trees and skyscrapers are blown away
we’ll grasp the lighthouse tower
we’ll signal out across the bay
we’ll guide down the driftless anchors
and the shipwrecks which they save
to each their subsurface enclosures
but first we have to build the cave

we’ll see the sunburnt gurus curled
on tight circles on the rock plateau
we’ll follow their pilgrimatic students
and reject them after when they go
we’ll spy on the cardboard seminars
and the firelight charade
they’ll explain the meaning of diversity
and the methods to behave
and soon you’ll learn by allegory
but first we have to build the cave

when the last resistance tribal
remnant makes their sacrifice
when they’ve gone by asphyxiation
holding on their zealot scroll
safely mummified, ungraved
but first we have to build the cave

we could find our own path upward
from the downward world below
we could leave our dead dark footsteps
in the phosphorent fungal carpet that grows
and when that is stomped and done
when we have lost the infinitesimal
unsolar light it gave
we could find our own path upward
but first we have to build the cave

we have lived too long in the outer light
unlimited walking illuminated unbounded
until exhaustion approaches and
I can give you I can give you
the sleeping blindness you must crave
but first we have to build the cave

we will build our penitentiary
for the kneeling short-statured
so we can hold them untouched
speaking by ansible video
illuminated in rounded concrete
valuted chambers for the unsentimentality
with every corner turned concave
but first we have to build the cave