Perhaps I require revolution rather than mending day

or need to get back to my ill channels,

disinterest, a fetish or two

and a more obvious sin than procrastination.

Force is never equal, not in my calculations,

nor is severance or servitude.

I tell myself lies that sound like truths. That’s clever.

I turn out my pockets for dust, coins,

and palaver. That’s too clever.

When I divide it evenly, the cavalry will come

with their shiny tear gas and lucrative immortality.

When I hold it out, the futurists will come

with their holograms and plebiscites, their ghastly chums

full of gosh and ingratitude.

When I hide it away, it will be covered up by

brazen vote cards and gaudy guilt.

Here are my stupid boots, my placards, a little book

of tasteful green catechism. Already the rocks hate me,

the wind turns its back, the day sours,

wearing out my slang, my tokens, my renewables,

the hopeless gluten between my bones, my brawn

and its wasteland of humours.

The only way to revolve is to stand still, give up my axis.

There’s nothing special in that, except when

ground shudders or the wind refuses to hold me.

Even now my shoes fill with doubt and slick.

I can’t mend, I can’t fly but at least I can keep

skeptic tremor over so much prior glut.

Shame is my sticky thing.