A Tribute, To Response


by the way I feel
you'd think I'd be embarrassed
of this divine discontent
of this staked claim
 that it's god's right
to hold me
the fool, a child, relentless
 as this world of stories and it's insistence
on staying in line with the rhyme

this is more than just growing older
 this is the substance and meaning that are worthy of keeping *my* attention,
there is no unreason greater than realm of what I want