in the old days almost everyone

was psychotic

the most punishing

were the anal neurotics

who crushed difference

the good news is the tubes will last

beyond our memory

facing the final noon

without knowing

for feeling

for the monkey

that place

where you

could speak to animals

because all was certainty

in what you knew

you ran through the checklist

of known emotion displays

and figured out where

everyone was going

not so easy now