Why bother? 

Why should I bother?

No one knows

My silent audience plauditless 

Along plodding, verb-bodied Grendel

Tossing men verbosely across longhalls 

Howling ferociously, returning to my fen.


When I go and poes no more flow from me

Weeping policeman calmed at last

When great heaped cone of my effort turns over to a draining funnel

And all I have done is accounted futile 

I walked only a handful miles a million times 

I o’ervalued familiar climes, and time’s length.


I hoarded beholdances sent me

Would agreeably scriven them 

In some acrimonious season 

But life a wire along which fire 

Travels, gavelling session to silence

Again my pen rousing silence 

Silage crown’d headround all I vomit out

There is but a sad, flour’d pile 

Life’s debris, its uphacked bile

No profound intercession 

Hinting in dreams Indra’s net 

Which Odin’s Norns tend

Tears foregoing.

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