. 
 
 
Pearls and bones making their way 
to histrionic embattled days... 
Ermine nights, crystal-dark halls 
leading to Ophelia, Lady MacBeth,  
dead, but not. 
 
Charles, Phillip, how many dungeons 
with mangled, chained Edwards- - 
butterfly monarchs delicate passages. 
Demanding Jefferson's return. 
 
Freedom of rights. Rights of Freedom. 
In azure seas of leisure. 
Which coast failed, returned dying?  
 
History repels, history compels, what 
rights does history have 
to adamantly coerce 
pearls and bones?  
Lessons for the struggling lost?  
One beggar announced sacrosanct 
embittered phrases, admonishing. 
 
Our hands are rankly garroted. 
Surmise a simpler course to amend 
outrageous, felonius harbingers of  
theft. 
 
What writers we could have been. 
 
 
.
elysabeth faslund
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/yahoo-s-destruction/