Scribblers who take their work seriously Will become the butchers of oxen ghosts For there may be no proof for this puddle But your eyes are cooking this roast The side of a page is half of a cow Who might have been wild if not for the now Whose presence is frail and hard to defeat Emerging as is from pasts and hoof feet Stampede the throne and take what you can Learn to make hay out of concrete and jam Under the wisdom of words is a number Handed to ministers, diction and jumble Could the patter have said: you must be repeat Talking not walking and reading the peat Swamps and the ice in the land of the gods Confirm thus yourself is a player of odds Author a fraction and glance at the sea Contentment was a ship that sleeps under me Drink up the glory and show off your hair The beards and their chests are neon slime glare Masculine actions fights swords with a pen Culture made factions and blighted our ten Dismally defend the things you don't own Or write on your heart as if it were bone