Our is , our are , our am ”all melt away
To was and were , the markers of a grave.
The sweet infinitives we hope to save”
To sing , to cheer , to love , to kiss , to play ”
Prove finite: for to die will end their stay.
Carousing , feasting ”gerunds that we crave”
Collapse when dying claims both fair and brave.
Permissive modals” might and can and may ”
All vanish when stern must makes die our fate.
Our firmest sentences are all interred;
Our strictest syntax will disintegrate
Unless our phrases end in one sure Word:
The very parsing of our prayers will damn
All speakers not dissolved in the I AM .
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE
On Suddenly Having Several Children
God never gives us more than we can take,”the midwife told us, after catching two—two—heartbeats in your…
Seven Years Alone on Wildcat Mountain
I didn’t like doing my spring cleaning in March. March is cold on Wildcat Mountain. It was…
AI Child Porn and the Libertarian Lie
On August 25, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit…
