we made pleasure our guide, an ideal
excitement amid the pedants and perfection of delicate elders
in the heirloom of boredom’s salon
we found a savage torpor
habit gratifying those masters of rustic conversation, who expressed their birthright
while we made their pleasure our guide, an ideal
divination for self-abandoning minds
playing parlour games with the lower harmonies of scholars sharing trademarks
in the heirloom of boredom’s salon
the enragements egalitarian, law and benediction
rational as museums and causing intolerable disgust, we were (necessarily)
made for pleasure, guided toward an ideal
facsimile of elegance, the vanities of gentlemen
cadent in oversmiling and transfigurative language, commonly violent
in the heirloom of boredom’s salon
operative manners are a shortcut to rank
while nature germinates huge forms, visible companions within our empire of gourmands
pleasure is our guide, an ideal
in the heirloom of boredom’s salon