External Form

An icon is made 
from abstraction
or 
the vital communication
between who is 
and who is not
viewable.

Living people
become
something else.

This game 
is worthwhile 
insofar 
as what is true for love
is also true for life:
the world 
rests 
on 
a foundation. 

Am I a monster or is that what it means to be a person?

But will I also 
wear a crown
or a little wig
in my sleep?

In this hierarchy 
of quality — 
take 
down 
the identifiable,
glorious death.

As a manifestation
of their necessity
poets set fire
to the extension
of their bodies.

The guillotine comes
with every crown.

When do we go under
this costume as flesh?