Judas Kayfabe

[rowens]

Judas Kayfabe

O Nemesis, arbitrary, let
  us touch wings,
betray the Common Hosts
  by flight of Real Imagination;
conning and cozening
Politician, Priest and Wraith;
Race, Nation: Social Just
  An other Mage's 
Windmill Media Corporation.

Force, the wind through the cow-bells
     of history,
don't constrain or polish your vows.

Life is Easter,

and the many waves of the many oceans,
Featherless O First Idea:

Come after as you came 
initial not to defame or 
barter.

Delight in the very arena.

Mercurial with Letters of the Goat,
We See that Void is a glassless ankh.
Hell's Double Number, an End facing a Start.

Dream died, as Hope
   Caved,
              and the Raven,
like a God, survived
      a Riddle . . .

[dukealien]

Judas Kayfabe

O Nemesis, arbitrary, let
  us touch wings,
betray the Common Hosts
  by flight of Real Imagination;  "flight of ... imagination" is nice interrupted, i.e. improved, cliche
conning and cozening
Politician, Priest and Wraith;
Race, Nation: Social Just
  An other Mage's 
Windmill Media Corporation. exists, though I'd never heard of it.  And does about what you'd expect.

Force, the wind through the cow-bells
     of history,
don't constrain or polish your vows.  Image of some beautiful enameled Indian cowbells my mother had.  What happened to them?

Life is Easter,  excellent.  (On the other hand, it bloody well ain't Christmas.)

and the many waves of the many oceans,
Featherless O First Idea:  aha!  Missed the colon on first reading

Come after as you came 
initial not to defame or 
barter.

Delight in the very arena.  Or, as the Christians said in the Colosseum, "We made the big time!"

Mercurial with Letters of the Goat,
We See that Void is a glassless ankh.
Hell's Double Number, an End facing a Start.  a stanza of signifying figures; glassless ankh would be a mirror without reflection.

Dream died, as Hope
   Caved,
              and the Raven,
like a God, survived
      a Riddle . . .  surviving a riddle.  The god gets down from his Tree, collects his winged messenger, and remains believed.

Missed the reference in half the title, but the rest is discernable.  Liked it; the negated pair ("not to defame or barter," "don't constrain or polish") is a trope when the pair is tenuously or not at all related.  Makes you think, though.

What language is "kayfabe?"

[rowens]

Also, I wrote this as part of a longer essay where was mentioned the Why is a raven like a writing-desk line. Nuit is depicted elsewhere curved over the world, and in my essay, she was bending over my desk as I write.