The Patterns That Will Have You

Frame it differently today.
The patterns that will have you
do not flow the way the others do.

The route down through the sway
that promises to bring you to
the end of everything is new.

Expect excoriating stabs:
a driven dark indifferent force
will blast you on its raging course

then leave you up for grabs.
Amoral, far beyond remorse,
dispassionate and cool, the source

will not so much reveal
as undercut your deepest mind
to make it leave its premises behind –

the mission? – not to heal –
for what needs healing?: but to grind
out the exactitudes that blind –

replace them with the chance
to breathe the sweet amorphousness
that really fills all consciousness –

and lets the damned thing dance.

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