Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

I'm thinking about rhyme and meter

but also my kidneys and my liver.

The nation-state and the failed state

and whether killers should be executed

or forgiven. Meditate on this: Thy

will be done. Do what has to be done

don't ask why. Clean the dishes and the house.

Will I be left to my own resources

or will all be given? Nevermind

what you can't imagine. Living's

life's priority. Friends are merely friendly, 

they're in the majority. Loneliness

is the default position. Rain happens.

We supply the reasons.

How do people process their lives without art? 

By caring not.

Ignore

yr autobiography.

In olden days, if you couldn't stand to pee

the family buried you under the pecan tree.