Soil and Trouble

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Act IV, scene 1

The mysteries embraced in midnights of

The mind take masterful control of heart

And other organs.  Lust replaces love

Like cuckoos lay their eggs to take the part

Of eggs shoved out of nests. Mind midnights lift

Impure desires above moralities

The way a mob boss gives an eyebrow shift

To cause a murder.  Dream fatalities

Make mockeries of us.  The Id of rot

Begins as festers in the realm of goo

As things we fight against find ways to plot

Our downfall undermining truest true.

  Caresses in the midnight mind bring death

    To decencies with blades in mocked Macbeth.

©  Phillip Whidden