Teach it desire and fear of reprisal
And that the slow burn of seething conquers the braying and bleating
Teach it to ration and ration and delay and inaction for the moments to act on

Lacking antecedents, delayed in the keeping, exercise of restraint, buy out what you can't negate
Listless lacking interest, dulled until it's worthless,
Say it again, say it again, say it all wrong
No urge but aversion, hundred percent surface, thank you for the concern in all of your referrals
Dulled until it's grotesque, intimately expressed
No, I said it wrong.

The key to defile: to bathe within your idols, and routinize survival, too salient to inspire
further in the shelter, to sink within the tether of what once would weather

Lacking antecedents, delayed in the keeping, exercise of restraint, buy out what you can't negate
Listless lacking interest, dulled until it's worthless,
Say it again, say it again, say it all wrong
No urge but aversion, hundred percent surface, thank you for your concern in all of your referrals
Dulled until it's grotesque, too austere to express
No, I said it wrong.

Adequately governed, nothing left to unlearn, a sect of second nature, to reshape like it's paper.
Overarching constraint
A wealth of reflex motions as much as you own them, cherished gifts and burdens, known for what their worth is.
Repeat where the lack is, lean in first and say it:
No, I said it wrong.

A clean smoke
A hollow
Spaces gone solid
Threadbare
But followed
Neck deep in the shallows
Places
Made sacred
By warmth of
Associations
A white birch
A steep stair
A vastness
of still air
In these days
There's odd ways
To raise words
To blank slates
My voice
To toned breath
So empty
It offsets

Deep in the circuit
Where all thoughts are perfect
Secret window
Erasure that billows,
Billows as a clean smoke
A hollow
Spaces gone solid
Threadbare
But followed
Neck deep in the shallows