SOMETIMES

SOMETIMES

sometimes
                   less than
    nothing
is an
         actual quantity

sometimes it is a literal
statement of fact
that you
    could not be more wrong

sometimes I
        desperately need
to shut
out
     your erratic energy

that I might respectfully
commune with
      the dead poets before me

who did
    in their time themselves commune

this a tradition going back
to the
     very first poet
at the beginning of time