How to Create a Robot

It's raining today.
That will help.
It will drown out some of the sounds.

Bodymind is important.
Without bodymind, there are no possibilities
no salvations
no conflicts, true
but no resolutions either.

Reading "Harlem" again,
I realize that I don't have it in me
to explode. So, I set the load
on the floor, open
the sack, and take out
my soul. It looks at me,
innocent and hopeful,
but I have seen the world
and I have made my choices.

I hold it under the water
for a long time before it realizes
what I am doing
and by then
it is too late.

Tomorrow morning, when I wake up,
I will feel better.