Opposed Aesthetics

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Opposed Aesthetics

As the arrested artists

of the masses

whose child faces

turned upon Beauty

the puny

light

of their immobile recognition

made moonвБ†вАФflowers

out of muck

and things desired

out of their tenuous soulвБ†вАФstuff

Until the Ruling Bluff

demanded a hellвБ†вАФfull

of labour

for half a bellyвБ†вАФfull

So did the mongrelвБ†вАФgirl

of NomanвАЩs land

coerce the shy

Spirit of Beauty

from excrements and physicвБ†вАФ

While Esau of Ridover Square

absorbs the erudite idea

that Beauty is nowhere

except posthumously to itself

in the antique

And trains

the common manifestations

of creation

to flatten

before his eyes

to one vast monopattern