Pain demands change.
Suffering applies for control.
When the sentence runs short
life becomes a lame analogy
smoothing out the similar
to make metaphors more like
similes. Combinations conform
to the rules of confusion, bringing
daylight streetlamps to light
the redundant sidewalks of
the suburb of less than neon
flight. The airport watches too
carefully and the checklists
manifest destinations whose
identities are non-solid.
Despair swings closer to
the reality: control fantasies
are failures of creative undecision.