ordinary

I have lost
my knowledge of the everlasting
& I cast meager shadows
(they look like shadows now, nothing more)


& I am half-past thirty-one.
I have been taught to care
& not to care.


I have been taught that
I am
& that I am commonplace,


& the bitter surrender
of a thousand different meanings
falls upon my fatherhood
& whirls me deep into an ordinary bed.










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