The Slithering Abyss

Today we’ll do the things we say
and say the things we do
and find out in the final play
if anything is true

about portraying what we think
we are or thinking what
we’ve done’s the perfect link
to what we’d thought: to shut

the door on ambiguity
and keep the situation clean –
to locate our congruity
in either/or, not in-between --

which is to say we’ve found a way
to keep at bay the slithering abyss:
fall down on our knees to pray
we keep on blithering like this.

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