Beneath the veneer
Beneath the veneer
of words
more words
as we sift our way
through tattered pages
and posters torn to shreds
the dust of words
way beyond meaning
words dead to the world
light years of words
that no longer connect
words once spoken
by earlier anatomies
species that have gone
the way of the world
to ash and to dust
cold bones
beyond sense
John Lyons