Isonchronic Lachrymosa

Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
when I try to do my duty,
I am greeted with resentment.
Isochronic Lachrymosa,
there’s no way I can avoid you:
even from the ivory tower,
I can smell the devastation.

Vestiges of several traumas
flail like cicadas in amber
just before coagulation -
permanent as searing scars.
There’s a girl wedged in the corner
with tattoos for valediction:
women gasp on sterile Venus;
men concuss themselves on Mars.
There’s a boy in old pajamas
who is comforted by friction
counts the hours till his birthday
is forgotten once again.

Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
when I try to do my duty,
I am greeted with resentment.
Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
even from the ivory tower,
I can hear the devastation.

Harbingers of nothing different,
but you’re counting on the stipend,
so you show up at the meeting
with your abacus and pencil.
Indicators of disaster
fill the drawers to overflowing
but your damned if you can locate
The adaptor they require.
applications for rebuttals
that excoriate denial
you mislaid when you changed knapsacks,
so you quietly shuffle beads.

Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
when I try to do my duty,
I am greeted with resentment.
Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
even from the ivory tower,
I can see the devastation.

I have plagiarized the breastplate,
Likewise did I swipe the blueprints
For a modest crabwalk backwards:
vulcanize the prophylactics.
Shall we scare up enough quislings
for a good old-fashioned séance,
or decode the blurry parchments
from the bottles we’ve recycled?
I can badger every witness,
I can monkey with the timeframe
I can exculpate the patsy,
but I can’t revive the plaintiff.

Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
when I try to do my duty,
I am greeted with resentment.
Isochronic Lachrymosa,
There’s no way I can avoid you:
even from the ivory tower,
I can feel the devastation.