tom taylor

finance woes

generally beyond me, but still the bad news grows
momently ahead of the wave of contractions and
limitations on the expansive nature of man’s low
esteem for even his own institutions is showing up

and while the ship slowly sinks into some nether
state the documents widening the paper sliding at
frightening rates of decline and fall of everybody
these tales remote us from our dreams and signs

a swarm of ants near morning engulfing everyone
in the path of such relentless small insects, sub
primal in their wave forms of encroachment and
a widening hunger for completion that forces all