…the whole sinister glittering faëry of gain…
DAS RHEINGOLD
WANT = HAVE
is not love
is the logic
of theft
is a forging
of charms
that know the heft
of money
DIE WALKÜRE
As warriors as daggers
to the heart they come
their children singing
disobedient asleep
SIEGFRIED
How to be a man first kill the Jew
then profit from a dragon’s tenderness
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
A thinning bloodline curdles into human history this hope will self-destruct
Second Nature: James Lindesay’s Poetry 