Forgive Me, Brain

Dear Brain, My dear brain, forgive me, won't you? I've filled you with alcohol, time and again My heart's silence drowning the head's tin can Once and for all I am delivered to you Forgive me, won't you? I walk now in dry landscape The full clarity of the mind's wrongs Radiating against my neurons Bristling against the inchoate... Fix it, put it all in place... Give me time, an agenda if you must. Make me a shoe salesman, a bird-watcher, A circus clown, whatever... But keep and restore the Trust Of the spirit-- (if I can't hear it than they can't hear it. If I don't sing it, its never been sung. Though if I write it, I've made a puddle...) Without it there is no sailing. No joyous movement; only love's curtailing. Forgive me, brain. Sincerely, The Rest Of The Body