This poem is a contrapuntal, which
means you can read it three different ways.
Once down the left column, once down the right,
and then as a whole.
So I'm going to try to do that.
Let's see how it works.
I'm going to go left, yeah, I think left, right,
and then whole.
No.
Left, whole, and then right.
That's I think I would do.
"Contrapuntal for Good Behavior."
This is the left column.
How good, how good, how good, how good, how good, how good,
how good, what's good, what's good?
How good can you be inside a cocked pressure cooker?
How good do you need to be to be considered an animal?
How good do you need to grease the greedy ethereal wheel?
How good do you love her?
Do you love him?
This, how good is your skin?
Your blood, does it look right?
How good is your personal air when someone doesn't ask?
How good are you well-behaved?
Quiet.
Keep your head down.
Asks what's good?
instead if you are OK.
How are you?
Are you alive?
What's good in your heart, in your blue cage where
nothing caged is allowed?
And then the right side.
Can you be inside a cocked pressure cooker?
Do you need to be considered an animal?
Do you need to grease the greedy ethereal wheel?
Do you love her?
Do you love him?
This, is your skin, your blood, does it look right?
In your personal air when someone doesn't, ask
are you well-behaved?
Quiet.
Keep your head down.
Asks instead if you are OK.
How are you?
Are you alive in your heart, in your blue cage where
nothing caged is allowed?