MAKE DO

MAKE DO

I slipped you
a tube of brutality

that you might
better acclimatize to
accommodate
the world

but hard as you tried
with vices and pliers
cutters and torches

you could
make no headway
getting the good
stuff out

and so, as agreed,
with ran
    with plan b
reverted to kindness
and the pursuit
of sainthood

not what
we had hoped for,
but
   it allowed you
you make do.