NAILING IT SOMETIMES

'its not repetition, its discipline'

              mark e smith 

one way or another

i may write

the same poems
over & over

because of

the meat fatigue
& the loosened memory
& the solitary cog

churning in its rut

or 

because
i got as close
as i ever will

to Nailing It sometimes

& thats a nice place

to go to

again