for decoding instructions;
identical rhyme
to give surfeit
some zing.
Mobile-home stanzas
in trailer-park columns;
contrition
as antidote to hubris
and shame.
Of course: rhythm
as instrument,
not the song
that it's singing;
as longing
without referent;
as syntax, not diction.
And last: the tragedy
of slant rhyme
to overgraze
pure rhyme's commons,
to contain
the seeds of its
own destruction
while retaining
some plausible
deniability of same.
