Ego - Bruce Moody

[Larry Robinson]

Ego

 

Ego is the measure of all things.

Just beyond it, the immeasurable.

 

Ego glimpses that eternal tract

and everything it says about it boasts.

 

It hasn’t been there. It claims a romp in the hay

with a babe it saw up on the silver screen.

 

The ego colonizes from afar the afar.

Its real job lies the other way. Back

 

in the direction of the earth we are to feed

with the manure we are to be.

 

Ego is the measure of all things, but one. From it it

turns. Watch it bow magnanimously.

 
	- Bruce Moody