MINOTAUR

Oh Doctor Lecter

I too wear a

"cheesy" aftershave

lose the thread as you

segue into an

incisive anecdote as

to how quickly fools

might be dealt with

how summarily dispatched

but then -- ah! the alchemy --

how sumptuously

used

(in that surgical precision

artistic care

such a

throwback, echo

of a more precious time).

And so it seems

I have found my thread

the one that Ariadne

impressed upon her

Theseus to

once finding the

Minotaur in that

insane labyrinth of

the

self

allowed him to

retrace each

psychoanalytical step

finding (at last)

the light if

not health.