I: Order

Spruce features sculpted through the burnished years

with metronome concision; ancestral tones

refined in leafy schools, the polished enclaves made

to replicate advantage life on shining life,

the bright unstated goal to which all efforts tend.

At one with old cathedrals, abbeys, Inns of Court

and sybaritic garments trimmed with golden braid;

despite their bloodless service to some mannered God

their suzerain is class: just class and nothing more.

 

II: Chaos

bookless houses gagged with brutish reeks

toxic inhalations epigenetic prompts carnival

expressions twisted urges warped bones groomed

by jackal gangs brief youths suicidal

deference cramped coupling generations

deep Labour-voting fascists patrolling sickly

districts following the football