DOUG BARBOUR           
            
Volume

A series



and even if everyone agrees
secular thought best questions
power power doesn't always answer
but it says there
are too many complications
at every turn
the old parties seek to preserve the
same old ways & refuse to see the
time for a change is now   They are not
indispensable   They can be returned
to 'the outer wilderness'   & how does
that feel anyway   oh
power that only once was












Theft of my soul   or only my skin
was all that I knew.	All that I'd been
part & parcel   you might say
of all I had to give:	the way
the heart does beat faster as
punishment, an ongoing disaster's
for all we know another crazy
sexual impetuosity lost in hazy
sin   or just lost - in some kind of maze, eh.


not so fast	there's
quite enough of that going around   &
so far only a few have caught it   a
routine check revealed     anyway neither health
nor welfare are responsible
so for the moment we're asking
much more of you	reading
an open book   & an
attack on all that we hold dear     being
on the go & following the road of
excess   wherever it leads   a
female transgression not withstanding
sexuality is not the question here   although
generally we recognize its subversive potential
but in the end rules of law will have their way