Q&A Reprise

Who gets caught in razor wire and likes it –

Struggles not from pain or fear, but simply

For the sabotage? Who snuffs out

All the wonderful, dynamic possibilities at source –

A simple euthanasia of the soul?

Who watches as the slowest fire takes hold –

Who claps and jigs and revels

As the flames consume the barn –

Hacks down the thickest forest and gets lost

Amid the stumps, compass in hand?

Who steps into the quarantine –

Who dons the punctured glove?

Who sees the lady all the way

But taps the empty cup –

Who spurns good luck? We know.

We’ve always known.