Wheels Within Wheels Poem by Mark Heathcote

In all the footprints of the world
and you followed in mine
in all the known M planets of the universe.
• Question, have I lost my mind.

In all of Mesopotamia,
where did that first sailboat maritime?
what was the first Sumerian verse written?
and did it even rhyme?

In all the fictional characters I've come across
love-it's-complete-dross, such a waste of time
how is it [love] we're all so duped
by this god damn awful pantomime.

In all the harlot houses,
why did Samson come to rest?
in the arms of a whore called Delilah,
imprisoned and oppressed.

In all of Mesopotamia,
where did that first invented wheel reside
isn't it a shame our advancements
turn to genocide.