Doodah

What good is all I've learned
in this combustion of words
I chose to think afflatus
unless it's alchemist's fire
and it's yet to be seen
what I am become
and not in this arroyo 
but in the cells of that triumphant beast
in whom Giordano Bruno* burned?

Make of this doodah and fooling around
a wheeling kite and hand its string
to a bastard child who will in glorious spite
			                                      let it go.

*Giordano Bruno, the last "heretic" burned at the stake in 1600 by the Catholic Church. One of his heresies was our present solar system.