Poem: The Variations

By Jack Brummet

1.

I don't know which is better
The thing itself

Or the chicanes lacunae variations
Selections shadings emendations
Redactions prevarications blurring
And sharpening that transmogrify
The tale with time

2.
I don't know which is better
To see the baby emerge

Or who the baby becomes

3.
I don't know which is better
To keep pondering the variations

Or to not

4.
My rogue and rococo thoughts
Skitter sideways
Like a side-shuffling crab

Using evasive tactics
In case anyone locks on
And attempts to impose

A framework
Of coherence and congruence
On these fitfully nuanced palabra

5.
If you actually understand
What I am writing
We have all missed the point

Sometimes I don't know
What it means
Until someone else tells me

6.
Sometimes I don't know
If it's better to pull your leg

Or my own

7.
I don't know which is better
The fog and detours

Or the thing itself.
---o0o---