I Lean To You, Numb As A

The Box Is Only Temporary.

I Knew Chemistry Would Be Worse, Because I'd Seen A Big Card Of The Ninety-odd Elements Hung Up In The Chemistry Lab, And All The Perfectly Good Words Like Gold And Silver And Cobalt And Aluminum Were Shortened To Ugly Abbreviations With Different Decimal Numbers After Them.

So Much Working, Reading, Thinking, Living To Do! A Lifetime Is Not Long Enough.

And So I Rehabilitate Myself - Staying Up Late This Friday Night In Spite Of Vowing To Go To Bed Early, Because It Is More Important To Capture Moments Like This, Keen Shifts In Mood, Sudden Veering Of Direction - Than To Lose It In Slumber.

As A Poet, One Lives A Bit On Air. I Always Like Someone Who Can Teach Me Something Practical.