Simple and obvious what should one do
First confess paralyzing ignorance
Ah but faltering sequence
And interruptive sidetracks

Hit and run
And as the runners advanced to second and third
The shortstop according to one commentator
Didn’t know whether to shit or wind his watch

Sports metaphor bah
Ah but retrospection
And interruptive correction
And arbitrary prohibition

Don’t write about love
About politics about religion
Don’t write about
Write unspeakable truth directly

Hence the injunction
To tell truth but slant
One isn’t really paralyzed
This is writing isn’t it

Ah but theft
And getting caught red-handed
And organizing things
To get caught

The old world dies and a new one comes to be
And such has been the case up to now
Information storage has improved considerably
Not so the achievement of consensus

People want triumph not defeat
Even less non-committal inaction
Ah but behold how moves the paralytic
Who doesn’t give them what they want