"life"

by Patrick Scaffido

same old book

i hugged a girl today
different girl than the one yesterday
different reasons
i'd never pissed in a construction 
    yard before
last night
i accepted that there is more to        
  life than love
again
aesthetic will keep you alive son
tales will preserve
poetry will hold in the flood
but there has to be more than this
care and concern and
the minions of darkness
perhaps someone who isn't {    }
would understand what i'm saying.
this experiment should be considered
a success.
life exists.
humanity achievable.
the question is what to do with it.

c. 1997