Energizer
It is a brilliant system immolated with
the Viking chieftain; Gus keeps running like
the Energizer bunny. His theodicy
of mercy is a gas.
2.
A Finnish brooch found
in the coin hoard does not tell us,
Was this a Finn who went on a
Viking raid or a Viking who settled
in Finland? Was he enthralled
by the voices of two kingdoms,
or did he plant his own World-tree,
and watch the universe revolve around
the family thus made?
3.
He’s ashamed of the people he’s been,
lie after lie upon hackneyed mis-truth;
he can’t remember his own face -
when he stands in front of the mirror
he seems to glow blue, like a vampire,
or a ghost.