perhaps it is the ladder
that compels me: i must,
like all ladders, or at
least go around and never
under: under causes all
sorts of bad luck. so i
have a system: first me
then see if there is a new
bit i can take from the man
across the ocean to learn
from or at least lean to
these words that are
abandoned at the end
of the verse leave me
at odds with the world
then there this existence
of past relationships of new
relationships as they reform
from the old - yes the ladder in all its platforms
