If I were to grate and
grade my mind for errors,
I would try
to write a new understanding of it,
placards and indices
indicating
its species was on its way
to classification
and bifurcation another nation
split up into categories
and gory lines and storylines
and Tory hides
and give and take
a few other things
worth mentioning-
to tell truths that need be told,
that the world was old
and demanded order
again amidst
the bilingual chaos
of our voices
trying to speak around each other
in some kind of
seismic strand of thought
that nobody but ourselves and others
could resist standing underneath in silence.
Paul Mabelis
As/Is
