Marlow’s Listener

MEMOIRS
The General no longer sits atop Cincinnati
He rests in a rattan chair on a porch in winter
The ruined man recollects ruins visited and made
Ruined hopes, ruined careers, ruined reputations
Ruined farms, ruined towns, ruined castles, ruined men
and rolling, ruinous cancer
From the rubble he brushes, sifts, reconstructs
and restores the ruins with the hand that piled
ruin upon ruin [...]