where else
should intensity reside

if not in the head
than what of the ride

brides to be
acknowledge weddings
and that is it
a flared out purpose
fulfilled

and as for strangers
doubling
I'll take their mumbling
any day
over my own fixity

it's called compromise
and collaboration
the point at which
another's inch
is added
and the _________ (poem,
marriage, life)
differs

what matters, then,
is what you name the difference
not yours
is fine
bad
is perhaps not fine

ours is maybe the best thing
that the solitary, the artist, ah
US!
cannot enjoy