Devastation among two ruined kings

collapsing hallways pinning memories as presents
statues in the morning gall like telescopes from Mars
dining with the interloping threatening spymaster
tonight we sing with only one army, catching the stand

hallowed borrower like a forensic master of telemetry
nesting inside the Stockholm spaces under indices
lights that never go off so as not to interrupt the fans
there is a doctored repository of declined action

world music is frowning on repackaged americana in the mail
some fertile skill set that did not dawn or you or I obstructing
just a measured defense of washway doornet transits escaping
palpitations of smokestacks growing from the blizzard light

hope and heroic running courses like some capitalist nightmare
silent fetishes that ruin the livelihood of only those who need sleep
that is a mastered appraisal like dictionary laundry and running water
keeping up with the turn sale of stapled skin on the ruins of the kingdoms