The Trial Of A Man

The ordinary milkman brought that dawn

Of destiny, delivered to the door

In square hermetic bottles, while the sun

Ruled decree of doomsday on the floor.

The morning paper clocked the headline hour

You drank your coffee lke original sin,

And at the jet-plane anger of God's roar

Got up to let the suave blue policeman in.

Impaled upon a stern angelic stare

You were condemned to serve the legal limit

And burn to death within your neon hell.

Now, disciplined in the strict ancestral chair,

You sit, solemn-eyed, about to vomit,

The future an electrode in your skull.