ASSEMBLAGE

Encrusted
disregarded days
pounding on the radio
from Rapallo
with all that noise
what of poetry 's pose
and poise,
the upturned red nose
the agon moment
as Tiresias,
gets the last obituary
off his chest
of he who died
in the Kultur war
at last in the parataxis
of fascism
like Metaxis
or the axis powers
that were and are no more.