chin resting on two palms,

sprouting totemic archetypes

of good-evil.

watching this passing away...

this double take on: creation/

preservation/destruction.

how moved, how unmoved--

can one become?

one becomes.

scratch to scar the surface, and

existence won't wear signs of

struggle.

though wisdom kills indiscriminately.

your thunk betrayed you with a

breeze.

the latest, of a series of offensive odors.