Can the clothes you have to crawl o...

Can the clothes you have to crawl on the outside of your skin to shed
provide us with a deeper coherence
than the myth of a begin again caught
in a traffic jam that threatens to be life,
and a reassuring united at that? Nah. So I degree
out of the shade that tries to resolve the sphinx
but not before ceaselessly analyzing the suburbanites
smuggling our evaporating sweat in their briefcases.

Without them, there'd be no alternative to them
unles we can leave beyond all thinking reduced to comparisons
to discredit the drive for justice (in love) as sick
as a standard whose muzak version outlives its