Clockwise Cat Strikes Back

A Note on Teotihuacan
By Mark Young
In order to abide
by the precepts
of The Loneliness of
the Long Distance
Runner which is / their
holy book, some moths
retire from politics
but still continue to
produce distinctive fibers
based on the use of
quartz & similar polymorphs.
Others are
rounded up so they
do not become a
significant number
when their final digit
is rounded down. The
rest, once sufficient
radiation has been
absorbed, are left
to complete the
frescoes on the walls
of the Pyramids of
the Moon & the Sun.
As members of the
company of the faithful
this is part of their
duty. In this way
Teotihuacan remains
a one-party state.
Author bio: Mark Young is the editor of Otoliths, lives in a small town in North
Queensland in Australia, and has been publishing poetry for more than fifty-five years.
His work has been widely anthologized, and his essays and poetry translated into a
number of languages. He is the author of over twenty-five books, primarily poetry but
also including speculative fiction & art history. A new collection of poems, Bandicoot
habitat, was recently published by gradient books of Finland.