Black Lives, White Lies & Dreams Untold

Some say, today, the entire Social Contract stands frustrated

How long can the Law's blood-lust be, by but blood, lustrated?

Justice rolls on like a river- down which are sold

Black Lives, White Lies and Dreams untold.

Others, planting cotton to block Marsyas from Midas' ear

In the Solipsistic South of a Chrematistic force majeure
Mint the taste in our mouth for a more melismatically grim

Rhapsodising of the Republic's Battle Hymn.

Whether issuing through gates of ivory, or of horn
Why deny Dr. King's dream was still-born?
   So Gerontion's heirs traffic Ganesha's tusk
Not heart to housel but ensoul its husk.