Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ on Nostr: It includes all that by reference The poem is the world, by reference It only has ...

It includes all that by reference
The poem is the world, by reference
It only has pauses

I'm pretty happy with it
This is the first draft
I'm not sure if there could be another draft
once I started
It

doesn't terminate
except through the usual processes
of death or sleep or boredom
What does it mean
it doesn't end?

When I was reading the poem once
(or speaking it from memory, no
one is really sure which comes first)
I paused