Sunday, July 13, 2008

The Least

Your tone, lately, has been awkward
and fairly thoroughly evasive--to say
the least.

Always so forthcoming and so wise,
prattling beautifully in probabilities,
the least

of which could cause a man's brain 
to melt into his esophagus.  It's fun.
The least

likely thing to face almost utterly
improbable statistics is probably
the least 

likely thing to win.  Did you give up 
the idea of the "romantic long shot"--
the least

frequent mathematical calculation
ever performed.  Maybe it's been
the least

frequent for good reason?  Maybe
so.  I mean, I guess it makes sense at
the least.

You are poetic to my ear, but lately
I have heard something other than
the words.

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