O to just have faith
enough to wake
and get dressed
without
exhilaration but
nothing to resist
none of this
syntactic spun-
sugar
how many lines
have burned
in my earnestness
skill and hurry
having murdered
purpose
between birth
and death how many
unarticulated poems'
flattened tongues
mouths closed
around headstones
useless and end-
stopped
order beauty simplicity
no organization
other than
by date
no justification other
than appearing
to exist
