Addience

Who is listening
Or was the question 
How many are

A cutting remark 
Framed as a self-conscious
Querulous nature

Which would rather
Be alone in the wooded
Region than surrounded
On sidewalks and street corners

And yet
The ever-but
Conditioning a mind
To consider the
Allturnative

Spin around
See the circle only
As two halves
Of a line

And pick one
Then the other
And hope
You are and not
Being watched