Hey, Mr. Rooster, don't bring me no new day without a job to go with it

Some yearnings never go out of style. The cock crows and it can only mean one of two things: time to milk the cows or pretend you don't know this man. We'd much prefer the first meaning, but, alas, work has gone overseas or out of style. And what's replaced it is mostly time misspent in virtual places where saving the world is about as productive as masturbation. Notice I didn't use the word "satisfying." If the "sin" of taking things into your own hands didn't satisfy, no one would spend their time and dimes on simulacrum.

Personally (as well as impersonally), I agree with Ed Dorn when he wrote about "escorting" the chairmen and presidents out of the building or locking them there in quarantine until the power that plagues them passes. Showing them the door or forcing them to sleep on the floor could be done peacefully but addicts, as we have seen, will sell anything to be able to buy. They have gun racks in the back of their eyes. Addiction is addictive--as much so as alienation.

In the mean time, a poem so good by Ed Dorn it will make giving attention of lesser degree or deviant quality to anything outside it a mistake you will regret for the rest of your life. This is a true

SONG

Again, I am made the occurrence
Of one of her charms. Let me
Explain. An occupier
Of one of the waves of her intensity.

One meeting

Behind the back
of the world
Brief and fresh
And then
Nothing.
Winter nights
The crush of fine snow
A brilliancy of buildings around us
Brief warmth
In the cold air, the cold temperament
Of a place I can't name

Now what is it. Turning into
A shadowed corridor half the earth away
And deep inside an alien winter
I remember her laugh
The strange half step she took

And I would not believe it
If Europe or England
Could in any sense evoke her without me,
The guitar of her presence the bearer of her scent
Upon my wrist
The banding of her slightsmiling lassitude . . .

--Ed Dorn, Way More West: New and Selected Poems, Penguin Books, 2007, p. 67