Void 3

Life Was Something

You Dominated

If You Were Any Good.

Life Yielded Easily

To Intelligence

And Effort

Or to What Proportion

Could Be Mustered

Of Both.

It Seemed

A Romantic Business

To Be a Successful

Literary Man-

You Were Not Ever

Going to Be

As Famous

As a Movie Star

But What Note You Had

Was Probably

Longer-Lived.

You Were Never

Going to Have

The Power of a Man

Of Strong Political

Or Religious Convictions

But You Were Certainly

More Independent.

Of Course Within

The Practice

Of Your Trade

You Were Forever

Unsatisfied-

But I, for One

Would Not Have Chosen

Any Other.