The Coriolanus Effect
By Tim Wells
For Jack the Ripper walking tours
Come
ye learned,
ye loquacious,
ye lost.
Walk a pentagram
around ego,
erudition,
experience.
Our shuls,
mosques,
and homes
be yours.
Our murdered
laid bare,
our slums
still teem,
our souls sold.
As for us,
we marvel as
our own effluvia
swirls
widdershins.
Source: Poetry (October 2014)