Dan,

The incorruptible are unattractive and
Clearly invisible. I never see them.

The corruptible fill the hedges
Of this neighborhood. They
Take the place of curtains, and
Hang from my walls.

They start life as gentle landscape
Reproductions in heavy frames.
In two years they are beautiful
Women in swimsuits.
In four years they are beautiful
Women not in even swimsuits.
These things take time.

Or they are born as acid loving
Hydrangeas which make white
Snowballs in summer.
On my suggestion of
Aluminum Sulfate, next season
They shout blue snowballs.
A third year later, and
They are bald cypress.
These things take not as long.

Do not worry.
You can free yourself of all
Corruptions by speaking only
Italian for a year, drinking
Moon black tea on the back
Of an elephant, and
Marrying the first underage Polynesian
You meet in a burning warehouse.