But why Lie, except in Poetry’s charred category?
But Charm’s their trade. I lie, but when it hurts to lie ( See a bee )
I tell truths in their Species: what Shove its Hard, stinging knowledge, raw,
down my throat, like sex do, or don’t, or how doubt do. ( A bee considers ,
among roses , which rose .) Better I make this Baseborn walk meet my minds,
transient Amateurs, if I can remember the line . . . an Emily
Dickinson poem ? . . . the line: but can recall her Staggered gait instead,
What goes like the Sunday Organ: that Honest, afferent & mad. ( Among roses .)
Can detect her Capital letters slam Accent, for Emphasis, & play
Dynamic keys, since no italics can script
in cursive—These are blueprints for me, something like what I hope
I really am. Or seem