as a cap on a wave
or starve off tomorrow
and limp through today?
Do you do the rituals out
of habit or lust? Do you shine as
a star or skim the top as
dust? Do you do as say? If it
falls on deaf ears it doesn’t count
anyway. Do you pretend to be
someone you’re not, even to
yourself? Or have you forgot? Do you
question the motive. Or never ask
why? Are you a December snowflake
or a firecracker in July?