applied for grant
 of clemency

      or clementine

  oh my darling

do you not know the test
 you are about to perform?

  that's about to be performed
 on you?

all of you?

      your breath has become the maelstrom
and the maelstrom has become your thoughts

                          which become you
         and which don't become you at all

                                              not
                                               at
                                              all