Anger

The sightless doorkeeper 
Catches the deaf cleaner 
Eavesdropping on the dumb tenants. 
Cripples in a conga fiesta 
Dance till their feet hurt. 
Tenure after tenure, 
Decades after decades 
Lionized rulers on perilous thrones 
Enclosed by evil advisors toil tirelessly 
To erect pyramid of ravage; 
 Souvenir for generations on queue 
Delight to the archaeologists unborn, 
In the village of the deaf 
The dumb town-crier is proclaimed inefficient. 
In the recycle bin of their consciousness 
Lay an evicted conscience.

CYMBALS OF AFRICA