Baalbek

If only i could sleep

If only i could rest

If only i could just relax, eviscerate the text.

And take in stride the hugeish monoliths and kiss the megaliths of giants Who lifted once or twice or more the massive blocks like ants did to bear all manner of nature's insolence of gargantuan trash

to form rubbish heaps and rubble piles and tunnels by the thousands. Here the stones immovable do prey upon my mind Like enorming grey ebloated turds betray the mask of time Like precise mysterious stony tones nerve-wracking in their chime

To leave deadweight unliftable this puzzle heft of crime