Esther Greenleaf Mürer Legacy A neverending shrug of obsolescence
pricks across the quondam-fruited plain.
Mute microorganisms toil amain
to deconstruct the litter of tumescence,
to bring again to its primordial essence
the wreckage of our reckless lust for gain.
A neverending shrug of obsolescence
pricks across the quondam-fruited plain.Brassieres with built-in bioluminescence,
fluoridated hubcaps, all-terrain
refrigerators gessoed with cocaine—
To after-ages this was our quintessence:
a dead cacophony of obsolescence
pricked and pricking, fruitless, on the plain.