. . . . . if it all comes down to a checklist
then what is the rush. it won't ever
. . . . . all get done. some morph. others
become extinct. a headache in fumes
. . . . . candles lit like bodies stretching
across years. the little light, the little
. . . . . heat insufficient: a dandy tune
and a rhyme and so many paintings
. . . . . if it culminates to a checklist
and it all will never get done and
. . . . . really at the end of ends: for who
for what and the why - why must
. . . . . it come down to a little lit string
