The Stance in the Stand

Where you are will think you
As you think where you are.
The novelist, surprised

To realize novels
She thought great works of art
Others see as evil

Avatars of empire,
Dares to think that maybe
Greatness only depends

On the empire’s success
Propelling its stories
Into literature

As universal myth.
Yes. But the moral is
Not that art’s immoral

Or you can be moral.
The moral is being
Moral is more or less

The empire where you stand,
What’s thinking through you now
That others won’t think then.