Today

Today, attempts
at symmetry
will be allowed
to wander: today

we’ll squander
every impulse
towards the perfect
circle, dump

the craving
for an unassailable
geometry: today
all regulated

circumscriptions
and depictions
of exactitudes
put to the test

will be, as sweetly
as they can be,
patted on their
heads and fed

and put to rest.
Today we’ll live
as if a life goes on
forever. Today

we’ll sit there
in the hay, chew
chewing gum,
and be a bum.




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