The most hopeful hopes
the most effective hopes
are impossible hopes.
These hoops are smaller
than the ball.
Goals too far away
for a billion kicks
to advance on the net.
The cultivators of hope
shoot and kick anyway.
The vision of paradise
must be unattainable
for heaven to mean a thing.
A life must be more than
the sure thing at its end.
Death, also, something to hope for
an unending epilogue.
Every day's worst hour
must remember to wish for
the Mediterranean's bluest day
the sun's purplest set
the orgasm to end all iconoclasm
the phrase to unite all speakers and hearers of language
and with the wish
the hour is transformed
into the next hour.
Roman Ryan 