Monday, 20 February 2012

the funeral gathering (or too many masons)


by John Butterfield

dark suited with ties and yet not smart
in a shiny Italian way
but very respectable
they chat comfortable
man to man with each other
as they, followers of "the craft"
looking inwards to one another and
tolerating those outside their sacred circle
en masse attend the funeral
as the deceased was one of their own.

they seem unfriendly
but perhaps that’s because I am excluded
from this secretive inner clique
of lower middle class masons
and happy to be so

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