Common

The common land was cut up into squares.
Gridpapered in exchange for them. Enclosed.
Divided. Conquered. By the conquerers.
With pens, ink, tar & feathers, and the world
as maths-excercise-cake, & as consumed
by Marie Antoinettes in property.

Cut up, like relics, into property,
Into triangles, rectangles & squares,
for to be culled & for to be consumed,
wheels within wheels & hells in hells enclosed,
a lock-in long enough to lay the world
low as mills, as Satanic conquerors.

Will-o-the-wipsps, in crept the conquerors,
discovered, & turned into property.
Electric spread her net over the world,
which peered, gasping, out from between its squares,
&, wreathed in lightning, synapses enclosed
in plague, in cataracts, in scums, consumed

by teeth of flame - consumed, consumed, consumed.
Gran: prefab electrician. Conquerors
building their trenches in the sand. Enclosed
like borders. Herbaceous or property.
Claimed. People packed in flatpacked boxes. Squares.
How many of her wires in the world?

Wired. Local news & world news & ... the world.
Today & tomorrow. Cooked up. Consumed.
Under grills & in grids. The lines & squares.
The bears. Politicians & conquerors.
Beastbirds guarding their nest eggs. Property.
Banked & buried. & distilled. & enclosed.

Electric jungle. Unconcrete. Enclosed.
A world within a world within a world.
At war for pride. At war for property.
Consumed with jealousy while its consumed.
Downloads. Uploads. History. Conquerors.
The hearts & the minds ticking all the squares.