both

a broken doorknob

doesn't mean

the door evaporates

like a ball and chain

in a prison escape movie

even if you saw at the door

like you would

in a prison escape movie

you still would face hinges

it all peters out

that's the principle

it relies on

the reliable let you down

with the soft hands of

a circus trapeze artist

(have you noticed the

metaphors of metaphors --

things of things I don't

actually know -- on purpose)

feeding spoons

you watch them pile up

in x-rays like indy crackups

the vroom vroom

going boom boom

doom

i'm foreboding a sense

we are now foreboding

cubists love bullion

distilled chicken squares

it is always this

and so it is again

experience is a lie

because things change

so how do you know

what you've learned

will stay

the things you learn from

are learning

always learn, never change

or is it

always change, never learn

one of those two

and probably

not that important

to figger out

that's what's great's

huh, apostrophe freakout

that's what's great

'bout both

why the artist is a metaphor

not a user of them

(not a user at all)

why being able to dramatize emptiness

doesn't make emptiness dramatic

just somethinc dramatic dramatic

good life boring art

no

boring art

boring life