Ten weeks dodging contagion from a barber
Has left me with Victorian Bishop’s hair
Until I sleek it back after the shower
And in the mirror a Victorian Liberal millowner
Is now standing there.
You could pretend these chance tonsorial echoes
Mean something deeper about just right now
Either truths Utilitarian about Profits
Or Faith in God’s revealed Religion serving us better
Than Science might allow.
39 Articles versus the Market:
Even boiled down to homeopathic particles
Both prick-tease with capricious inhumanity.
As of yesterday it’s killed thirty-eight thousand (that’s 974
Extra deaths per Article).