CANTO 68 Redcrosse Knight tangled

 

 

Redcrosse Knight tangled with hi-tech spastics

like Spenser’s dragon Error the today show

cut the mustard cut to long shot gambolling

like sheep or was it lamb’s essay on roast pork

ship-shape and squeaky clean

with cosmic debris the vacuum it’s a blast

this beast just an ordinary day:

 

Let the anima rouse

in knowledge and kindle

the keen fire of the nucleus,

 

tousle a mane of sparkling positrons,

sing in atom-sprung ecstasy!

 

Too long

the Imaginative Beast

lay tethered and sedate,

submissive to the designing hand

and file of the rational faculty.

 

High-spirited Savage,

shout in the technological wilderness!

 

Stalk

cunning

concatenations

on the keyboard!

 

Gone Apostle

of dithyrambs flaming

in the printout

 

swelling in the delirium of

disk decathlon Olympian track readout Bacchanals!!!

 

Subside now

into exhausted apparitions

of plummeting flameout conditional

form-feed weakness,

 

crawl docile yet unsatiated

on clenched fist paws

into a tent with

circuit board

walls.