10.
Politics and art are never free of lyric poetry

nor never will
whose effect has
conned the cathected
            (rumour’s signature – the rut)
the
then relatively new
oft-opted
putting on the printed
and bound
whose webbed emergence
had lent points begun to steel

in speeches, in which the effects
of centuries are enmeshed:
                  lent
                  in particular
and turned a light sharper appreciation
(and just as sharp in Greek)
just as technology runs thick
and to and for and back
and slits, in particular, period

(but politics and art are neither free, nor from)