June 4 02?
Wealth is not extracted without lamps or canaries–
gold perspires in the cracks of stone formations–
value is perpetually internal, the further sought,
the more it evades our overtures, our drills.
Solid matter opens to a microscope or cloud chamber
as space that gapes derisively at the seeker,
not only young Americans wandering Katmandu
unaware of the casualties in the palace,
all those gilt chambers for proper diplomatic reception
echoing the guards' boots, or closed to visitors,
as the crown prince, wounded mortally, sighs.
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