Electra, in slow secrecy, allows the high-built towers to soak into
her,
Secure their anchor to the rock of the planet, tethered, they go only
to the sky.
Clever to demand belief in the way they do and she isolates their
vile success,
Belief demanded from those never shown another way,
One Answer received, one Answer given, perforce.
Shouldn't the people of Alba have realised? By now?
Shouldn't they know they operate on one Answer out of a many?
That always they trot in masses toward?
That every faction they weld has the Answer as stated policy? (Their
hustings are not of great excitement.)
Told in the loudest voice has deafened them,
The people, great Samson taken to the sheets and shorn by murderous
murderous chaff.
She's got eyes for the stagnancy,
The laziness from populace to governance, there 's a King gone to
quoits and bowls and falconry,
A no-good Piers Gaveston beside, full of pleas to be indulged,
While at the palace, a Richelieu places his seal to the great charters, his
job all spun in disguise.
That a monoculture cannot prosper forever?
That they are derelict in their duty?
That they tramp incurious, content to make yesterday today?
That they be on the qui vive, that acrid should be
their enquiry,
It 's not as if things are so good round here.
The Answer has found a means to consume, as life will eat all
smaller life
It has taken the light, insatiate, from the trees in the canopy,
All the others, they lie unused,
When a multitude of Answers could have their trial.
A black blazing Sun rises today, on a sky of vermilion,
She's got eyes for the stagnancy (and if blinded tonight might be
happier), knowing,
And grabbing at passegiati with fierce rays,
Daring them to defend their God in all his inactivity,
But still these Albans go, oblivious to their forehead number,
Bumbling bluegrey carp in a murky pond, the postnoon too hot to bother,
Not to create the world, since their God has done it for them.
Knowing that they are lethal, these fools, with their answer so well
supplied,
I am an Answerist, I am greedy for many, says Electra.
