Thin scrims of sweat soon pearled,

Gleaming beads fleeing in terror

From prisons of flesh,

Engulfed in the flow of a coursing ambition

In the white-noised hush

They had become urgent,

Exotic, and wild

Slack-jawed slayers of all things 

  Shallow,

Menacing crusaders

To the doubting infidels

Amongst their indolent brethren. 

 

At full extension,

Their cravings became ravenous,

  Lurching, consuming,

Strung out to a vanishing,

  Throughout this mad universe of flight./