Derelict Taxonomies
Derelict
taxonomies
Things extinct or fading
Folding up their
orders
Find a kin in me
(Slumping
into dust
They shuffle their mistakes
Signing with their
sighs
The odds of sorrows lost
Cryptic
in my shade
I'm early-dressed to mourn
I've new regrets to
forge
And distance to afford
I
step fast to conceive
The sins they've never seen
For pains
they've never named
I lean to feel the sting
As
novel as I stray
Inventive in my vice
My blood is aged to
rust
Archaic in its strain
And
obsolete is faith
That casts itself aside
The law I
deified
Believed itself to death)
Tortuous
moralities
Codes that fail their causes
Killing off their
saviors
Have found a fool in me