"The Dark Ages

Monumental mask,
for any amputee a lavish dogma,
flows with the olive tide but heft of magma;
of shanks the husk.

Mortal foolish craft
whose vintage ice cream dome unhinges mystery,
be more than his faculty to rust destroy:
and ferrous waft."

--Zan* Gort, Am*rican *mpty Quart*r, 1958