Journ ey/al

If it's not written down, did it happen?
If it's all writing, is there time for happening?
Getting clear, explicit, obvious:
Step by stepwise junction, turns
Selected to obviate functions
Mistakes embraced or traced
Following the nose of the animal
Leading the way down the trail
Of the wilderness that the ink
Has stained with ill-formed 
Letters, of introduction;
Intruders to the fortress
Of tradition and sustenance
Success and good fortune
Wiled away rather, with the
Thoughts and actions of
Not exactly rebellion
Nor entirely escape
Another meal, another
Glass, additional conversation
Toward the endings for which
No prescription can accelerate