the new jerusalem is reunited with god
between the beginning and the end of god’s plan
the end times the mass of god
is the apocalypse
but life outside the book
in the new jerusalem
is to make of humanity
a series of clay ashtrays
the second world war is a holocaust bomb
dropped on the japanese
a profound sign a smear of optimism
the low-cussed force of capital
humans survive almost to the present
find the monster at the end of the book
In the case of the waste land
the first world war returns
as a traditional religion of heretics
fragments of virgins in terror.
In war zones spread throughout the unreal city
some figures carry away the body of a dead or dying man
passing understanding:
remember: the gods were once as near as now.