Thursday, November 21, 2019

Commitment

You can’t afford to be haphazard.
The best guard against anxiety is preparation.
Prepare to be dazzled!
If you don’t let yourself get too frazzled,
you can be a knock-out sensation—
if you don’t throw everyone off the scent with your haphazard
garb, wearing your negligee
on stage, as if you were keeping an assignation
with someone who dazzles
you to your deepest corewho fishes on the Grand Canal
while your heart is racing
without hazard-
brakes. You got married in the fall
before your good love entered remission,
blind from the sundazzle.
You tried to catch a lizard
by its not-so-tensile tail
presticoccyxation.
You made a haphazard
stab at seriousness, but now you’re dazzled.