"What good is one's toil underneath the sun?" That same indifferent sphere gave birth to the shadows Where we count the days off by headlines on the morning paper Light pours through the transom As wanton hearts turn endlessly in sleepless labyrinthine memory (a pa**ing bus shakes the whole house exposing two feet at a foot board) What awful dregs have tired so easily! what futile repetition and longing! In seizures we might gain true vision of all that is absolute and senseless In a ceiling fan cadence A pulsing mechanical presence Our bare arms prop up dull thoughts of how one sleeps through the night with all the binging and purging, snoring awakening Some may never shake their demons