of your many,
many seasons,
every stray opinion
and each ham-
fisted choice
may grotesquely coalesce
to the voice
of pure reason:
to abandon all your vices
is plain enough to do—
but cherish not
your virtues, for even they
constrain you;
to be rid of these, as any
load, you need only
pull it home again
by taking the levelest
possible road
to the top
of the highest mountain.
