For the portions of Megaera

Tolled and spoke
like juvenile disease spreading
orchids and malcontent sophists
draping the sol quent
reasons for the sun spirit
like a doggerel saints spending
patience towards the encampment

sent rams and tolerated messages
like reified sold criminal icons
that have no meaning,
but the saints of trees and ashtrays
arrive just the same, to join
like myiasis and broken wood
caught among the stems and thorns

when will the carriage of ions
praise the patronage like stone
ashways among the front
seeing the fighting, not lost
not withdrawn or satiated
there is no market for distraction
one should have acted
when one had the chance