Roman Ryan

I understand how 
collaborator
got a worse reputation
than rebel
than rogue
than fighter.
It does not mean
I have to like it.
I like collaboration
in the direct sense
without the intervention
of overwhelming power
and subservience
forced.
I like to become 
collaborative
with a process.
To become one 
with poetry
nullifying the bad efforts
toward singular poems
by efforts that achieve
all the rewards we might achieve
by lettering our numbers
with the spelling 
of together.
Process this with me.
And let that be
the processed place
we come out to 
at the end.
The out
comes.