The tenor man restricts his artistic fix Atop His dusty maple mantle piece His lesson sent His love away His passion was his dagger play Upset from the form that was not his own His soul He saw could hold no bones As if speaking to oneself were half that fun As if the falling rain hit no sleeping drunk *** Practice makes perfect because work is precious Precious reason to go on and on and on Precious reason precious reason That reason which was not clear and quick to sway The battle cry from throats tired off the boat Boars bend their weary cracked aged' spines A memory fades pixilated back into the mist A ball is tighter when gripped like a fist Wheezing women wretch whimpering for internet love How is nature going to handle any of this? Any of this Any of us Any of this nonsense we believe is supposed love I am sick I am tired I am falling from grace One day At a Time Soon sorrowful laments will ring from the church bells which I have never visited They are quite pretty Quite pretty But the popping up of ancient ghosts lined with ******* crumbs Feeling dumb Feeling oh so dumb with a thumb pressed against a glass at full mast At half At half At half Mast.