cocksure prickly puppet show
extravagance, the cash, the blow
the Nietzsche cults, the in-the-know
the craving, preying, aching minds
the politics, the cards, the blinds
the peaks you climb, the bind you’re in
see trickster wily surface win
with skin deep skin, the outside-in
behind the thin veneer of you
is everything, and empty too
of form, but forms and starts anew
gives birth to air and sky to blue
