IN CAREFUL HARVARD NOTATION

IN CAREFUL HARVARD NOTATION

let me
   (consults thesaurus)

shepherd you here
Instruct you
on this

guide you
gain your trust

Inform you how it is
we like to see ourselves reflected
there as we are
our mirrored reality

not a single syllable to interpose
refract, distort,
do the
   things words do

are doing here

but let me proffer
an almost alien, hyper-
linguistic perspective

since
   albeit we have our Grecian ideal

Achilles, Penthisilea,
inside, outside
their armour
     who can, dare, resist them?

but our biology lacks the nous
for this text of desire

on balance (and
off balance) fraught with
imperfections
    from my
outlandish P.O.V.
(point
     of view)

and our history
(as book) closing
before
   we even
get to the races

feet
  barely off the ground
(so say
    the seers, in careful
Harvard notation)

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