The Wages of Hubris

Michael Peach

In aping God, mankind has lost
The means by which to simplify
Itself; and thus the heinous cost
Is that God’s faithful creatures die.

Jerusalem
10 June 2002

Like all the kindest men’s in history, Will’s anima was

In his sonnets Will’s narrator loves a manPlatonically; for he’s

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve