Poetry

Sustaining

To abstain,

To obtain,

To sustain;

That, dear Prince ,

Is the answer...

The question doesn't matter,

And it will drive you

(and yours) crazy.

Questioning ends

In gross self-pity

(as though, as you know,

there

were another kind)

And warps the mind

No matter the good

or Noble intentions.

But the curse

(in all this)

is the sustaining

(you know, where you

Find yourself) wandering

(as we see).

Yes,

Indeed,

Sustaining is the crux,

And, of course, yes

The course, that

must begin

With the others,

What our new wise men

(very unlike Uncle P)

call foundational.

Thus, Sustaining is much

More difficult,

Despite TS and

His

(this, the dead land,

the cactus land, really?)

maundering,

Than Princing.

And so

Here we are,

Definitely not Princing

And, perhaps, glad of it.