How Many Effs

What to give
in the season of
-stitution?
A reasonable prefix
to begin with.

Desiccation,
reconstitution,
institution.

There is money
in the trees.
There is mud
in the dirt.

The circular logics
follow ritual
on the path of tradition
for tradition's sake.

Give me idioms
or give me breath.
The choice between
the automatic and the laundromatic

spins like a false phrase
cleaning an already-bleached fabric
that holds together 
entirely separated people.