Scott Thomas Outlar- A Poem

Camelot

  

If you want to kill a myth

in the modern age –

build a household brand name

up to the plank

of Godhood,

and then send

two sure bullets

to the head

of the patriarchs.

Add a cup of propaganda

on the local news

with twelve weeping widows

on their knees in a grassy knoll,

then play up the sorrow

until it spreads nationally

and feels like

all hope is lost.

Once upon a time

it was an honorable Kingdom.

Once upon a time

it was a whorish Empire.

Once upon a time

there were good deeds.

One upon a time

there was a mafia.

Once upon a time

there was a round table.

Once upon a time

there were splattered brains

in the back of a motorcade.

Scott Thomas Outlar survived both the fire and the flood...now he dances with the waves of the Tao River, waiting on the next flux of chaos to commence. His chapbook "A Black Wave Cometh" will be out in April through Dink Press. More of Scott's words can be found at 17numa.wordpress.com.