Who knows what kind of party you were expecting
A robin beats a cricket to death
But with approaching footsteps
Quickly departs careful to retain the prize
But as footsteps approach the new position
The bird flies off again
This time leaving the prey
Surely incapacitated by now behind
Rage for occurrences that conceivably could happen
But manifestly have not nor likely will not
Thus it can’t be the case that everything is gone
Evaporated dissipated tapered to a point
Fallen past desuetude
Compensation finds its way
Through the tangled conduits
The smirking one for the blustering one
The old one for the posh one
The scholarly one for the ingratiating one
And still the retainers pass on their wonted perks
And the abandoners cherish their entitlements
If only in memory
That faulty foolscap
The lawn for example is littered with pinecones
Discarded after discharging
Their cache of seeds and yet still
They play the role of pinecones in size and shape
Varying of course from species to species
Though these exhibit variation only amid uniformity
Having fallen from a single tree
But manageable perhaps as objets
The poet for the sales associate
The fibonacci sequence
Known of seashells cochlea and other seedheads
Other picture postcards
The spiral tapering inward
To a point and what’s a point
For the spiral expanding outward
To infinity and what the hell is that
Though desiccated and altered in color
There you go again
The immature one for the erudite one
That continues to grow like a monitor lizard
I hear the asseveration
That you don’t have to put up with this shit
A point midway between the midway points
Halves of halves
Midway between the solstice and the equinox
Between the fulcrum and the force applied
The equalizer graphic or parametric
The triple beam
The Aristotelean mean
The telos and the categorical imperative

The claim is true as I have heard from hell
And other published reports
As of size shape and other relativities
Aimed at and missed
That all must be one or the other
Though neural pathways haply play a part
The part perhaps of the wild card
And other attempts at cartography
Imposing regularity
No doubt and by broad experience
And what cleverness would be required
To determine how what must be
Not always is