given to me by elders who feel they must leave something just a little different to have lived for something a fragment of a leaf on which is written my name sold by those who felt the same who knew not how to ask where sorrow comes from why you can't speak of it and therefore live it true the form taken of a dozen few ones worn by variations of the same lung and shape I saw a hundred mice in a lake terrified of stomping feet that made leaves fall to fall was their fate not one of them great
two snakes wound together thought they were the sunlight falling on their cracked warm road laughing at unlit depths we advise to burn your name and not trust wind our hopeless believer did you see how they wrote, hoped, dreamed and didn't leave one thing to remember bought one word a name and now it's all they know