If the tongue is tied
to the ear-drum
you'll miss all the rumours
but pick up repercussions:
the shook & the rattled.
If the veil is rented
out from top
to bottom you'll find salvation
's priced itself out of the market:
indulgence going soft.
Cataracts occlude retinal travel,
make statuesque shadows
out of refractory substance:
the infrastructure registers
zero on the Richter.
The definition of disaster
is under review
by the Insurance Brokers
of New Europa. Old bull
on a 12-tone scale.
Perspicacity's a good glaze
for earthenware
or brimming wine glass:
known to hearten, while a Curia
is no remedy.
In a cave behind a veil
the cataract
is tantamount to a cataleptic
rush of ululating matter:
a failed Wasserman.
A Mantoux neither cures nor
causes fluctuations
in consumption. Other forces
prevail, eg, the common wolf:
the rest is palliative.