26 december

because time is arbitrary and we cannot trust ourselves to toast the healths of others past our own expiry dates we must wait and be counted wanting every once in a reasonwhy wonderhow -- cowering is senseless and there is no cause for fear: nothing others could invent is worse than what we can imagine -- stand-ins and disregard keep pace, chasing heavy overdoses of the real, reeling back and in and sinking to swim and evening out the odds to call in the cattle before they roost and all the hens come home for the storm -- there will be rain tonight