The Nude Universe

I.

He let himself
be one thing and and after another
unsure of the concept
of allow
- being allowed, allowing -

the inadvertent is always the
precedent, though he didn't set it
it merely sat there

the accord was granted
by the relationship placed
between the persons of
his own will and
either another, more ethereal,
or none at all: a vacuum

a golem in negative space

II.

this one believes
in the concept of
success, so it will*
constantly elude him

* in order for it to,
or: and because of this
it will

(this is going to
take some warming up)

how can I make you
feel shame
believing nothing
believing in nothing

(not I told you so)

what have you inherited
except of the inability
to realize
what you don't have?

III.

so he built a wall
or the beginnings of one
and this fellow said
"well, now you've got
yourself a wall."
and they stood around
it like poetry

why is there fire?
my daughter asked
why is there fire?
because there is blood
I wrote, but won't
tell her until she is older

math is the color of sand