Wayne Knoll's

Spinning Top Bottom

People
once were with
the masses in contact
with earth’s reality -which gave a
true base for Leaders who were not too far
above and a human fabric which spread wide and true
because it honestly specialised a sense of each person's place
and a respect for them chosen few who had authority and responsibility
at the apex of a power that had a few tiers of sub-estates below its little pyramid
but then more and more had desires to get away from the earth wanted to be up

higher and less and less wanted to do menial, manual earthy chores, ones in the

middle
grew
thin
in

discontent, firstwanting to be at the top with little sense of what being up there was

meant to be for ! so we threw up in the middle - as in envy and the world of civilisation

bulged and became misshapen as we trod upward on the others as fast as jealousy

would drive our
mobility
and so then those at the very char bottom
heaved like coca-cola
upwards and in so doing dragged the bottom sides of society in towards the middle so that
the pyramid grew higher and higher, only it broadened out below the apex so that the
figurehead was flattened and there was no pinnacle left up there to aspire to except
a broad plateau from which those on the top and wide tiers could feel good in
themselves simply because they were above the other layers and not deign to
look over but instead look out each way from a height which gave no real
view of the earth below which was supporting them because they
only looked overways across the plaza and if a rare one looked
over the brink they would cry in alarm, and not be believed
because no one else could see that the whole
edifice was now built upside down and
the pyramid of this society was
teetering on a fine point,
on a single abstract
place down
below
us