Verbal Parasites
(Lingo of the Alley)
To my mentor, F. Dostoevsky who stated
"Only beauty can save the world!"

By Tatiana Pahlen

Oh, breeder of the swarms of flies,
with such desire to expand
their paltry wings to reach the skies;
who's meant to squat, meant not to fly,
but stimulate the soiled demand
of old elite to see it die,
then rule the mediocre land.

What you have done did not survive
the splendor of these faultless words;
the broken crystal breaks its sounds:
"Beauty couldn't save the world!"
Swipe away your crawling doubts;
if beauty won't,
 who else you, master?

October 18, 2000

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