All That Carry-On

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash

the man who makes the tools
that forever made the man,
that ration the feed to the boy
but strengthen the life of the baby,
whose blood he nurses on,
conveniencing maman
and rousing malcontents
into doing what they do,
creating enterprise
notwithstanding,
same again as the old,
makes kings and enemies
and new times again and anew,
same as the old kings and devils,
which raises up the family
and does for the house
and exposes the caesar du jour
while…