From the Archives : Les Miz (2016)

It seems everybody has an opinion

they have defined in relation

to the Revolution — some sing

the chorus upon barricades while

others take aim to make them stop —

that’s when the first shot shot is shot

and the day is wrapped for those

who were lucky to have died.

Now things will have quieted down

for the friends we’ll never meet.

Friends — no matter what they will

have pointed at us, done with us, to us,

what now we feel shall be revealed

les affaires immatérielles d'antan

and the times will recast us, rolled over

in their greater sleep — to fashion

of our lives history, to reboot

our homes into glamorous flats

of pilots — ace debonaires

with prudence enough to know

when to quit the hopeless conflict and go

nurse those dry martinis they

left sweating at the bar.