A Course In Curses

Images drown out the subtlety of language.
Be aware of the language that you lay next to an image, once there, the text surrenders its claim to meaning
--and dies.

Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK
On a pink official form.

Private rites of magic send
The temple prostitutes to sleep;
All the literati keep
An imaginary friend.