80. This Time the Pus Was Right

“Arguments made on the bodies of the dead were also expounded on the bodies of the living.”

Robin Fleming, Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 (The Penguin History of Britain, Vol II) (Penguin Books, 2011), p 99

The hopeful pink ideology of the permanence of privilege

             Time the [embalmer]

                         suddenly shaken

                         all sorts of noisy stranger

Improvisation

               like origin legends                   – again!

Hits us                the distinctive little culture

                be our marker montage

Alban, moreover, was decapitated

Offa can bring justice next

           start to adjust burial fashions

             are    time itself [and coinage]

             a kind of barbarizing, heroicizing, high-status material culture

Spilt gravy            feasting on damson pie

Sour fluid is dirty

No         to the head cult

And         that obelisk that suddenly

The [anything particular]

We are very fluid underneath

     milk and heterogeneous, thankful

This          pus

                     O grateful ooze!