Magnets or Mercury
We’ll re-construct stories to
cope with awful stuff [ways
to adjust awful lives] – we’ll
shift our margins & indents
to reshape liner notes [as if
a magnet pivoted off north
& other fixed attractions – I
had a compass – implanted
in my heel – marketing had
a slice of her housekeeping
to pay for new shoes – True
north pulled me further on
in my youth] – That axis we
relied upon has inverted to
spill mercury as orbs on all
my notebooks – My lines of
verse are rolled over – I will
scatter my every-recording
‘cross ageing floorboards &
cast slippery traps – of balls