#349: THE POET WILL REPEAT THE QUESTION

'Have you built your ship of death?'
have you rehearsed pronouncing 'shibboleth'
have you memorized your recipe for meth
have you composed your death-haiku
your proprietates mortis? Have you?

Have you put your shoes by the door
have you opened the windows and swept the floor
have you lain awake for your cruelties, grave or         slight?
cataloguing crimes? chanting names in the night?
have you heeded those summonses as is right?

Are you prepared for the sirens bright and hard
the headlights that will pull into your yard?