Too Soon to Take Down the Decorations
Sterilization competes with wrong-painted windows
That grandmoths gather for ugly pearls
Fostering the insight that gave all dynamic direction
Of simple tested comradery
Like a wastebasket in the muck
Washed with torrid swelling lost journals
Competing with stolen arguments
Intentional arguments, meant to harm, to defeat, to imprison
There was a simple, gathering, mule of a man
Who left with his books, left out his insides
Did not look back, almost, though later declined his intentional decision
Short-lived as it was, he did falter on his resting victory
And all the graves of lovely men, too soon taken, stepped up to greet him
Having made the same mistake