and as such should tell us definite things
the time of the eclipse
the birth of a new way
what great beast
slouches away from Bethlehem
what the oracle means
in terms we can understand
but no
he speaks in maybes and perhapses
he draws a world of fuzzy edges
sometimes his women turn into men
and vice-versa
sometimes his soldiers turn into oracles
slay the one white horse
examine its entrails
and tell us Rome will be defeated
when seventeen birds fly west
in a north wind
but still his pronouncements seem burdened
laden with meanings we almost recognize
as the capital gyrates and falls
into the next war
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