If I repeat myself, regard revisions as gospel The new is the new, according to the good book Merriam spun a web to stir the children To an understanding of what society is made of Language, the real thing, really great, realizable Don't deny it, your dreams are made of words Lent at borrowed time: noon or midnight is a subjective question The sun has too much power to trust it To circle circadians, fight back with an essay Denying your dependence on this cycle Nap an hour every two To discipline yourself Become your own bank And issue credit that you must spend At your own store Shoplifters welcome, otherwise, no friends Spam your mailbox With offers, more rewards, additional points For flying off the handle Let gas run off from your driveway After you siphoned your tank Into that leaky bucket You saw it in a dream And had to make it real As real as reality's opal Impossibly grown in the guts of a clam After it was eaten by a dolphin, unbroken This fever will recur Until you wake up from your debt And unbelieve, learned heresy is the opposite Of trained helplessness That's the lesson of re-orienteering Torn maps and ignored magnetic north Devoid of direction, swap spinning for cycling To find a way out of the trash's dictionary And blaze your own novel Without burning down the rest of the library