undoing
when you shake a hand in hired gown
shove sheet that certifies you’re second class
into the bottom drawer
and sign up for a course in lifelong learning
to find if marriages are made in heaven
you’ve got to wait until you’re dried up dust
looking forward to nothing more than eternity
spent with one who left you down to earth
to find nil desperandum was only a sign
on the hot desk as you quit your brass watch work
with I want out not now I’ve made it
to climb the stairs and wonder why you went
or where you are
or who
and though you want to slacken off
yet worry you might still be screwing up
then just remember
that niftiest bit of knowledge of them all
righter tighter lefter looser