There

Today got me to face the question:

why ever should I go there?

“Because –” said an interior locution.

I clammed it up before it could blare

anything that might be unfair,

anything that might hurt.

Like I have any voice.

Cowering under destiny's quirt

lashing at my back

offering Hobson's choice

whack whack whack

rolling in the dirt

all beaten blue and black

time would dally dally dally

I have to go there

willynillynoshillyshally

because there's one question

one question only

and its solution

its lonely solution

all along –

was there.