OTHERWISE

OTHERWISE

clockwise
counter-clockwise

I look for
the otherwise

am stamped as
otherwise

told I had to
do better had
             better do

not do be
so otherwise  so
anti-anti-clockwise

try to cut the gaslight halt
the rear projection

give up boiling my brain
thinking my way
out of
     this impasse

want to do so love to
do so have to do so

be so otherwise

otherwise
       who knows what
in Hell is what