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The Cotillion

Published on October 16, 2025

Will you be respectable down at the spectacle
once the event has begun?
When do you plan to have fun?
How long does a show like that run?

Will you be elegant at the extravagance
after the champagne is gone?
What will be left to build on?
Who will survive to the dawn?

Will you be delirious at the experience
before you slow yourself down?
Are you a serious clown?
What good is that much renown?

Will you be the piety for notoriety
until their next ship comes in?
What are you hoping to win?
You only get that one spin.

16 OCT 2025

Published on December 12, 2016

I think; therefore I am
whatever in here gives a damn
and whatever lays inside the lines
that separate me from my mind.

I think; therefore I am,
at least for that brief moment’s span
until I stop and think again
and I am not what I was then.

I think; therefore I am
what separates me, what great plan
lies beyond me? Who can say?
Not sure it matters, anyway.

I think; therefore I am:
What a self-important scam!
Long before that first idea,
there was something less, still me.

I think; therefore I am
whatever out there gives a damn
that I choose to shut up tight
and imagine gives out light.

12 DEC 2016