Left Hook


you give up or you don't
that's how it goes
because they say you have a lot to live for.
you
listen to it over the radio
and feel it as you watch the screen
you
love the sound the knife makes
but love to live to breathe.
then, like the grinding of a bone
against another bone, it breaks
and the ends, loose as the sinew of a knee,
come to a halt: you are at the last page
so that's the end of the book.