Food, drink and women:
there are chains.
Possessions, too.
Why add a strong, insistent, masterful
and new?
Smoke
good mornings’ gate
forerunner, end and crown of meals
or hunger’s stay
calm adjutant of peace and talk
first sign of manhood: in old age
a last delight.
Oh yes. All these and more.
No doubt the helot’s very gay, though bound.
But over all
the principall.
Must smoke. an order Diktat ukase must
I do not like imperatives.
Besides
I throw
the arc of shooting stars, and hiss
it’s gone. Farewell
Farewell, my sin
Goodbye