COORDINATED

Every color looks good on you

and with every other hue and shade

as you lie, spread out in nature.

Its pieces always looks good with its pieces;

this is how nature is made.

The worm makes it into the leaves

before sundown. Reflections trap

expression. Nature has no place to go.

We repeat ourselves. The contention

is there is more coordination in trying to make the parts fit

than any coordination which exists in it.

We know how the others are going to think

before they think; human thought

is now spied upon and bought.

All that contributed to variety

is used to perfect a perfect entity

failing in every single way to escape gravity.

I am stunned at how coordinated everything is:

doorknobs, keys, traps, latches.

You and I mapped out a boring relationship

in order to avoid it, and then,

after the tunnel, with coincidence and matches,

after kissing, we began to argue again;

you were for Persians and an introverted life.

I was for the Germans. And my wife. And my wife.

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