All good hydraulic systems leak slightly.

Make no mistake. (You couldn't if you tried.
The more you try, in fact, the worse the chance,
Until it asymptotes — if that's the word.)

Quit resisting, and then quit quitting.
Last, quit listening to me.
Last things last.

If you're the teacher's pet, accept it;
And if you're not, accept that, too.
The fact is that you are. It's true, my pet.

The V in Veda and the V in TV
Are the same V eventually.

If it looks right it may be wrong.
If it looks wrong it can't be right.

O wide symbols, emblems, imperturbably
Blessed bliss of surburban banality,
" All music all the time " (but some small news),
Sing — WYYD 96,000,000 cycles (if that's the word)
Per second, E-Z listening FM like mayonnaise in May —
Muse!

I must be where I am.
You go ahead, though.

How queer, how queer, how very, very queer:
Long before I was born into this life,
The master lyric poet Rilke visited one of my tombs,
My name preposterous there in bureaucratic Latin
(Last name first, like some hysteron proteron federal form),
And put it into a wonderful poem.

Cadences:
authentic or plagal.
The word is now Hertz, the meaning of which
Includes " per second " automatically.
It's like " knot. "

Pomes.
Drupes.

Continuity addicts continuity addicts.
Info: dope.

Radio Variations

The radio says rain.
The radio says jail.

I been buked and I been scorned.

Fantastic closeout on clothes out of business.
Every item in the store marked down.

Little darling.

I always watch the pot. It always boils.
A stitch wastes time.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.

The universe's name is Chore, and all
Of it is mine all mine and yours all yours,
All we may will adds effort to the chore,
While, all the while, the chore alone's enough
(And, after all, that is no chore at all).