...sonnet (65): Since brass nor stone nor earth nor boundless sea But sad mortality o'ersways their powers, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Commodification was bad enough. The privatization of entertainment reduces everything and everybody...

...But weep to have that which it fears to lose. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,...