We must, indeed, all hang together,
or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
-Ben Franklin
to the New York poet
who admires poets
in Oklahoma and Texas
who do what they do
in the belly of the beast –
I say yes yes yes,
but when you say I can say
what I say all day
in New York, but…
never forget the talk you
talk, the walk you walk,
is in the same beast’s
belly and you are
most lost when,
in, you think yourself
out to save lost souls elsewhere.
