Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'LllOovVee' by Aodán McCardle | Page 7
The accident of birth
if we are really here at all and whats the worth of
thinking any different
and the seeming sleep state
that increases significance
the intimacy of importance
the awakeness of insignificance
the fear of not
the impossibility of protecting the significance of accident
the sheer violence
the how did they
how do they
assault
wave
voyeur
shame
distort
feed
use
them
wonder
lessless
ignore
intimate
onto
naive
beauty
be
grow
wrap
mine
touch
worry
ache
hope
do
fleet
impotence
repeat
defeat
waste
done
fowl
clench
theirs
shrink
suffer
pain
hopeless
shun
wish less
nothing
eternal
the egotism of disgust
the egotism of the consideration of egotism
the disgust of egotism
the nothing of writing
the something of writing
the alternative of writing
the decision
the possibility
the space
the place
writing as other than
to make a line