4362. APPLY THE TORQUE

APPLY THE TORQUE

Adhere noiselessly to the baseball bat  - 

make neither a noise nor a feature alone.

See the wind move the swings amidst their

steel and moorings. All contrary attestations

notwithstanding, these are the ways we go.

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And have you been around? Hawking yet

your five-dollar pizza and a pan of beer?

These are all things you make yourself do,

and I'd recognize you anywhere. I can still

remember, when I was a young man, growing,

outside my rear-wall window I would see

the pheasants and the grouse  -  until the

oncoming local train flushed them out.

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Now all that is gone, though the trains they

still pass  -  carbon and concrete and wire and

steel instead. I apply the torque and force both

myself and my old-linear world to stay in place.