one is expected to rebuild one's self

and continue on the thorny path


but what if there is nothing left in one

upon which to build?


no pity no mercy from anyone included the One

on (as we say) high


and they will face their own comeuppances

but the One who doles out the punishments


will not care and one will just have to eat

hard cheese and have the failure added to their tab


some academic asshole decided as he sat at his breakfast

tea and toast that Kafka was not a major writer


because he does not espouse the canon as dictated by

the masters of our cultural vanguard


the jerk the imbecile the smug self-satisifed cog in the machinery

Kafka not a major writer? Kafka is the only "major" writer


who knew and expressed the horrible reality of the One's will

in this horrible world


oh the fools the shits the unmitigated assholes the rest of us

must suffer under because they'll never understand


how much a part of our worldly misery is their doing






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