1
Did you then say
circumscribed betrayal; did you say, the years,
the years alone have done this, circumambient,
did you so propose?
2
The years will not
answer for what they have done, that much is
certain. There is no shaking them, we
might have foreseen this
3
but refused.
No, refusal’s too much said for such freedom.
What fails here is fail-safe, our modus
conjured by slide-rule.
4
Ha! we can choose,
vivify what we catch from others’ voices.
Thence to imperatives if you stall in
any manner of theme.
5
Non-concurrent
the freedom and constraint outside of this
transient lock that is itself both
end and motive.
6
Juggling music
for piccolo and snare drum, for any other
ad hoc hocketing of joy, always provided
there remains silence.
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