Filling a room with baritone speech
Confident statements of the facts
Bridled for the adventure
Polar exploration, unfurled
When the wind is tacked or favorable
A map indicates reckoning
But a pen marks the spot
Pile up money and your metabolism may function
Exchanges, digestion, growth
Manichean fight, dear Faust
Vanquish the devil you won't
Make progress, rather
In the River Progress
Downstream toward an ocean imagined
Or upstream to the springs, beginnings
Idols all, but living is worship
Down on both knees, an alteration
Incantations, ritual or new
Blaspheme, heretic, your piety unglued
At a distance, I watch, then into the fray
Heavy or light, attitude play
Roman Ryan 