it isn't in the way you fold

submit to the way the universe presses you down
commit to your inevitable collapse
by which i will always mean make yourself as small as you can
so that you can slip between the cracks in that reality
the germ will defeat the dragon, after all -- the unseen
more powerful than the largest of all creatures
i experience failure only in the abstract
a momentary absence of success
the latin will prove itself:
to the stars through great difficulty


(i sound so certain of myself, so strong and unafraid
and it is all a curtain; i am so afraid i have frozen myself
a single moment in time, a perpetual fear machine cycling
cycling
cycling)