If a firework exploding
In an endless black sky
Can be painfully gorgeous,
Can a glass bottle
Exploding on a broken sidewalk
Be a poem written by the cosmos?
To what extent is a mess,
really just art?
I’m dying every day,
But if I died enough,
And I let all the things
I hold onto with white knuckles
Die along with me,
Could I find myself
Naked like I was
The moment of my birth?
Would I clean up that sidewalk,
Or find a more broken one,
Just to smash another bottle on?
If I am to make art,
I must make a mess.
If I am to live,
I must die over and over again.
And I must find something worth anything,
To get through this evening.