ENGLISH LANGUISH.

During ascendancy fallacious prophets gloat
With all the passion of the faithful;
Afflicted no longer by the hazards of their trade
As they maintain they foretold it last summer.
Their impunity is called from the deepest and
Oldest book of conditions unfortunately lost
To most but always available to those sharing
Its location and willing to exploit ignorance.

During the anarchy they ensure their council is kept,
And continue issuing warnings about the state’s exhaustion
Until all infected by this guile agree to its removal,
And swiftly and conclusively decide the outcome.
All thought of social class is lost beneath revolt
And houses cleared of previous pots and occupants;
Indicted and abused and erased from the slate,
Where familiar certainties are then spelled out.

During the resolution the instigators console their positions
By increasingly insidious and callous methods;
Altering any faculty or tome to include their names,
And insisting that the ruling elite give credit where due.
Unfortunately this is refused by the banking institutions,
Who as always keep their distance from the fray
And their word from the surface of the rising tide,
Until that is the poles freeze and the ebb forces review.

During decline the conscious realise what their actions
Have intoned, and in whose name the repetitions used,
And unable to control the events they pursue
Their own removal to outlooks generally further away.
Leaving only the foot soldiers and shit collectors
To sort out what occurred and understand its aftermath,
Thus enabling the perpetrators time to regroup
And eventually return once we have failed to figure it out,
Again.