Void 5

If I Could Do This

Through the Common Ills-

Domestic

Professional

And Personal-

Then the Ego Would Continue

As an Arrow Shot

From Nothingness

To Nothingness

With Such Force

That Only Gravity

Would Bring It

To Earth

At Last.

For Years

With a Year Of

Deliberate

Loafing and Resting

Out in the Center-

Things Went on

Like That

With a New Chore

Only a Nice Prospect

For the Next Day.

I Was Living Hard

Too, But:

"It'll Be All Right," I Said.

"I Can Count on That.

For a Man Who's Lived

As I Have

That's All You Could Ask."

-And Then

I Suddently Realized

I Had Prematurely

Cracked.