History is Time
turned backwards,
the dog-eared yellow

pages shuffled
back and forth
to disinter a few more

skeletons from
the cupboard.
It is replete with

suggestive
innuendoes
and contains

bullshit isms,
and stratagems.
It is full of

the stories of
conquests and defeats,
and of large scale

larceny.
It is the portrait
gallery

of coiffured men
and women
scrupulously framed

in the museum,
and hung on
the dilapidated walls

for allowing
posterity
to witness.