10-27-2008 Jughead is Prepared

1.

Wonderers strut between the chamber doors
with wide insistent eyes. To cut words thin
before one meets such men befits the more
prudential lords who wring their hands within

deep pockets. For they know that notch-faced time
will ever cue the wails of curse, demise
and failure from prophetic hags. The crime
of not heeding a truth proved later lies

much closer to conviction than the one
of marking every sooth from every grey
gummed tooth that gapes beneath a snarled cowl spun
with ragged faith. And though the fools will say,

“He should have changed his ways.  He should have cared.”
No shift of Earth will find him unprepared.