1.14.2008

if I should die before I wake


How much would it cost to buy into it?

To get my foot started in the door?


I want to think that art for art's sake

or life for life's sake

of food for food's sake

means something other than

my sake for my sake


but buying into anything means

spending on a Thing

as if my wealth were mine.


realizing that my wealth is not mine

comes even with no wealth at all


so


even if I have a life

it cannot be my own


because that would be cheating.


there are only two ends:


myself or not myself





: Who am I to make much of me?