warehouses around the water
tobacco and snuff
wheat and corn and flour and bread
sugar and rum
iron
paper and wool
oak and poplar and mahogany and spruce
tar and turpentine
orange juice and coconuts
rice and cotton
fish and furs and skins
pork and beef and butter and cheese
beeswax and candles
nails and boots and assembling ships.
baltimore bricks
remove public nuisances
provide safety and health
sustain streets, harbor, sewers, and bridges
regulate markets
prevent and extinguish fires
impose fines penalties and taxes
with crudely arranged defective municipal reports.
perpetually
after battles won by hundreds for ensuing millions
panoramas from the green hills above town.
swept over by demi-tectonics
we knew.
to deprive a person to rob their soul
to dwindle into insignificance to eternal infamy
apostates to principal
pursuing destruction propagating vice
rearing youth in habits of cruelty
base collective despotism in unison
citizens as tyrants ignorant of impunity
to be hurled amidst the elements of woe
why do we not step forward eternal will be the disgrace.
perhaps we are merely catalysts for the transfer of heat
from the core to the void.
genocide, enslavement
anthrocide
a boatswains pipe called
to make sail and take them in again.
four horses pulled it in step
on front of the parading crews,
then the tiny federalist sailed.
to warmest expressions of ingenuity
mr hanna transacting
on planks on piles of privy waste
and dredgings and oyster shells.
lost his small fortune in too many shipments to trinidad
the eagle and dragon will become each other
only as snake and skunk
horse and hedgehog
goat and rabbit
monkey and moose
rooster and reindeer
dog and deer
pig and puma
rat and squirrel
ox and otter
tiger and wolf.
prosper
in the expensive dirty muddy town
every prayer and petition for the kings majesty
was henceforth omitted.
thoughts turned to france.
small pox was precluded and five million dollars emitted.
they wondered whether the people would eat bread or drink whiskey.
royal portraits were hung upside down.
slaves and convicts worked
while idle sons lived like princes betting on horses, cocks and cards.
general washington
was provided with whatever he may want wherever he may be.
until our unhappy differences are ended
antelope and buckskin
defence, fidelity and enterprise
harlequin, nonesuch and sturdy beggar
careening and plunging in a gale.
beating to windward along a coast.
before the wind under clouds of canvass.
fresh away before brigs or frigates
on the wide-spread ocean
shipbuilders and merchants
begin the federation
of common universal convenient active
places.
to live
and buffer adversity
