s everything word worthy? 
Is a poem a manifest?
If you can see in the dark, can you still die? 
If this is a light in the dark, will it bind you?
Will words wrapped around a crime end the crime forever?

Where does The Religion of (No)
Scarcity take us—

what do we look to, 
from what do we look away.

we feed
the economy. &, this kind of ejaculation
keeps us
checked. ‘Cause we’re so much worse other-
wise.

I aimed
my red pen & spoke,   

You will not

get a thing for this ride!

There’s the “windsor knot.” That silent addict—on time for his (breakfast, lunch, dinner) release. For the ritual that screws him into his dry clean shirt, afterwards. He has trimmed. He has yanked on his beveled black sock.