WE ascertain you
the voice of a cuckoo
asserted.
Who are WE?
Soliloquized me.
WE?
WE make it our business
to know your business
WE create heroes
like MLK the dead hero
recites the cuckoo.
Electric wires ignite fire in my head
The agony makes me plead to be dead
Stop! I beg
as currents jolt my leg
You don’t play ball
with men tall
Do you want to be a dead symbol
or keep playing the cymbal?
My brain is burning
while learning
about the enigmatic WE
and the minute me
a wiggling worm in a fastidious net
long ago set.
WE oversee you
reaffirmed the cuckoo
WE?
My voice wound like a toy
by the mystic WE.
WE write the script
or rewrite the script
as WE deem the case to be
WE set the stage
WE manage the play
The role you play!
Commanded the cuckoo.
WE hold the light
that guides your path
Illuminate
or illusions WE create.
WE are the monkey
superior in this jungle
the cuckoo claims.
MLK—Dr. Martin Luther King (the African American Civil Rights leader in the early 1960s).
