Pillform #2

Through these last fifty years as

television's taught us war is folly

and that you should never throw over your real friends

and in the end it might be better to give the trophy back

and tell em how you were cowed and conscripted

giving milk for a war that you now understand

Through these last ten thousand years

as books have taught us, that love is folly and that

if you only have one friend then you're famous

and there's work and then there's making work as invisible as

wishing it down into pillform while staging spills

with the drink in your opposite hand

Through these last several moments words have taught me that words

are folly and that when the ancient slams into the transient

there's no way to determine who should get their money back

and after this everything is fitness

bigger dreams, bigger screens, bigger feelings are planned