Regarding If You Must

Regarding if you must

The house is built    finally

all will survive time exemplary

to look for it—what one rejects

fishing, for example to flaunt

what lunch falsified in some modest

memoir of restaurants lived

behind worth and the vast majority

thinner   but more abundantly his while.

I could have reconstructed once in

the way of things only you come equipped with.

Yet, hey guys—all loves are quiescent, pleasant and eager

to evacuate what accounts for losses along the way.

But civility wasn’t made to be a paradise

of choices to abide by, now that so much has

clad in some way the crunch that a trick

was involved by this sudden undone reversal

your reversal left to mistrust

itself holding the one interesting

thing you buy in bulk   first out

of circumscribed materials catalogued

as ambient where hailstones

in the way of returning obviated

the walk straight along a road to

find the night—in a signature

interdicted by the obsequious

legacy a production arc

returned anxious name to batch

layers of meaning still

swimming as though by a steam

cloud stacked in a smooth pavane

on glossy people polished off

for compelling reading   to rejoice

before the abrupt

slide of conversation hearing

quarrels if you don’t spoil

it in the exterior in

roads of the mountains, cogently re

versing them by losing patience

until later, you’re right about that

gutters conduct rain to the abject

earth you represent in sliding

doors of my own decreeing

I’d crumpled chiefly to see

my own reflection in re

versing them by losing

patience after all are left

standing  providing summer the air

and all things in it   successfully glued

it left the same  gone to put

the gloves or amnesia it never got

of my own eternal law unbending legs

like a daisy before anyone spat

how much?   In twos and threes mock

orange in the cinema’s orchard trees

of eternity struck too quickly

from flint successfully glued

to you  by this time were streaming out

frivolity in the fabric  if you must

go get unbearably hot

on what it means sliding

doors of my own

days still required to the laughter

of an accounting re:

versing eternity struck too quickly from flint