Relative Worth

Strategems he'll leave
for those with motives
all seamy/seedy.

The unrefined yet finer
(somehow) fabrics
undeviously crude
and seamless sewn
he'll wrap around
an urgent stone
polished previously
with the small oils
from strong and hairy hands-

it's miraculous
mineral veins
feelingly revealed

and by him kept,
quiet, in his pocket.

Silly boy was Charles,
who once was studying
the greedy, over-valuation
of what the wrong-headed world
still calls the most precious gems.

Give him just one Andalusian girl,
brass locket from her neck depending,
frayed linen hem swinging, swaying,
dancing beneath a maddening moon-

as he enchantedly observes,
dreams and sings but does not swoon.

To the simplest go the fundamental spoils.