We Never Sigh

We can’t recall the last time

we were vexed

by wondering what

we should take on next.

In fact, these days,

we’re not at all

perplexed

by anything.

It isn’t that we’ve heard the ring

of any bell of sweet illuminating truth.

We do not understand more in our dotage

than we did in youth.

We haven’t rid ourselves

of any exigency of incarnate life.

We shit, we eat, we sleep,

we sometimes take a husband, or a wife.

We just don’t see this

as occasion to feel strife.

We don’t know why.

We never sigh.





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