#4

I'm in all these earthen-type colors today and my
triceps are sore
With what kind of creature did I battle in my sleep?
Was it the Great Boyg?
Go round, Peer Gynt.
I don't want to go round. what are you?
Go round.

stayed a little open until that guy looked at me in that way a stranger no reason
then i closed no more open for today
withdraw withdraw a little more every moment

"'I am beautiful,' he said, 'but imperfect.
I have lost my past.'"

(or was it, "'I have no past'"? I can't remember)

I don't want to go round.

[literary references to Ibsen and IPJ]