Wise men say:
only fools—and so on
and so forth.
Wise men also say:
time only flows where the
entropy grows.
But the hardest part
of holding back
is knowing
we cannot speak away
that numbness
which disobeys the lungs.
*
Prove you were here,
they say.
Sign your full name
to this statement.
And date it.
*
All the words come
with such blinding halos
we cannot make out
the context in the background.
But where talking
cannot solve the problem
who are we,
the blind, to insist
that listening
should perform that trick?
