
VIII
The leadman, a Headmaster with
the tainted image invented randomly
like when nothing better seems possible,
now enters. Figure needed for greedy need
the ceremony’s emperor and
a metaphor is created in due time
by the master who knows valued value
in the irony of the mostly alive
who counts value in the dead
and in their wealthy off springs.
New shaman abolishes rituals balancing the tip
of the scale with greed, after all
when it comes to selling questionable
truth, a naked man to another man
or beast to another human beast
it only matters when
it doesn’t matter why