they built a capital of numbered sunlight,
a forest of ticker-tape trees
where value was a thing to be pollarded,
held in the clenched fist of a ledger.
roots were deemed inefficiencies,
sapped into columns of abstract growth.
we were taught to worship the grafted apple,
all the while starving for the taste of a wild,
nameless thorn.
......
they built a capital of numbered sunlight,
a forest of ticker-tape trees
where value was a thing to be pollarded,
held in the clenched fist of a ledger.
roots were deemed inefficiencies,
sapped into columns of abstract growth.
we were taught to worship the grafted apple,
all the while starving for the taste of a wild,
nameless thorn.
......