Prophecy Poem by Frank Avon

These are the works,
these are the words;
these, his designs,
these, his lines.
His, not thine.

1.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
a miscellany
of poems and proverbs,
satires and diatribes,
the Bible in its infernal sense.

2.

The French Revolution,
epic,
a book, never a book,
doffing his bonnet rouge
at the end of a long, hot summer.

3.

London,
a Song of Experience,
wandering solitary
the dirty streets, the dirty Thames,
the soldier's tears, the harlot's cry.

4.

America,
a prophecy:
Orc, energy and rebellion,
Urizen, tyrany and the Law,
whence the myth arises.