News of the Golden Age
timetraveller is well-cultured
knows answers of best words of past
lurks shadowed at prophetess' fume-
dazed shoulder tripod-perched in
worrisomely precarious balance across
entrance to crack to dark of deep
limestone earth and when next
questioner announces self as Lyris
says the blackouts memory loss worry
her asks what she does when so so often
drunk he whispers prompting answer
as cribbed off Martial "same as sober only
better blowjobs" and cackles laughing till
hooded cone joins in and she who has had
answer not seeing funny side but feeling
in sacred place you must do as voices of
high allknowing ones do laughed wide
mouth too her bright teeth catching
some bent echo of sun outside cavemouth
far above and three were one until
his time ended snatched in spin of silver motes
straight back into nearforward of our time
lab was asked what had been learned and
choking giggling at last sobered enough
to say have found how true poem is
timeless communion of shared eternal
meaning and wrote report exact to fact except
no mention how against all rules implanted
external data and booked down next week to
go again to the same placetime enough
minutes later to meet in dark passage
backwards towards the sun Lyris after
her answer a satisfied customer on
high road to an emerging future shaped
precisely and with care how poets do
knows answers of best words of past
lurks shadowed at prophetess' fume-
dazed shoulder tripod-perched in
worrisomely precarious balance across
entrance to crack to dark of deep
limestone earth and when next
questioner announces self as Lyris
says the blackouts memory loss worry
her asks what she does when so so often
drunk he whispers prompting answer
as cribbed off Martial "same as sober only
better blowjobs" and cackles laughing till
hooded cone joins in and she who has had
answer not seeing funny side but feeling
in sacred place you must do as voices of
high allknowing ones do laughed wide
mouth too her bright teeth catching
some bent echo of sun outside cavemouth
far above and three were one until
his time ended snatched in spin of silver motes
straight back into nearforward of our time
lab was asked what had been learned and
choking giggling at last sobered enough
to say have found how true poem is
timeless communion of shared eternal
meaning and wrote report exact to fact except
no mention how against all rules implanted
external data and booked down next week to
go again to the same placetime enough
minutes later to meet in dark passage
backwards towards the sun Lyris after
her answer a satisfied customer on
high road to an emerging future shaped
precisely and with care how poets do
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