O you used thimble lying in a dresser drawer.
O you used match.
Concentrate on rough and tumble;
loss, become mythology:
Charybdis as a grain of salt, Scylla
as popcorn. Which worse is which?
Let no soul bob up and down like a cork.
Suffer unborn children. It lasts,
do not forget as you run, it lasts.
The mind is the brain's internet;
Self is a loose ball of string.
You are the world; disconnect from everything.
Thomas Dorsett
first published in
California Quarterly, Fall 2020 (Volume 46, Number 3)
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