And I know angels die / And I know where they lie / Where they’re buried and why
The Holocaust / Goethe’s Faust
And how I bore the philosophy / Of bar-room bores / And Socrates / As they tried to analyse the dance / Of life and death as happenstance
And the blindfolded courtiers / Bowing before the royal scene / Pick the feathers from their teeth / And hail their sated Queen
Who knows? / I might eventually forget / The yin and yang / Of regret
The ether gained / A new luminary