Of course to wait is best
The weight of movement makes this clear.
To rate the choices, to make a list
And add the costs ,subtract, divide
And analyze and look up in old books,
To footnote and study of course
And to fund and commute-
To symposiums and refute sophists.
Best to watch as Baudaliere watched
The treacle of Paris, ossifying
To the stink of a room
And a dram of laudenum.To trust life,
Is to act upon it, thrust upon the eternal,
A short hot breath, to dance
The head of a pin with style.
To rust in life, is to
Dissolve the metal in a star.
Too grand, the resolve of inertia,
A static cobbwebbery of sitting still
Breathing slowly in your room,
Not in the calm of meditation,
But in an embalmers patience.
