To refuse the course of desire you were given
untangle from their staves the measured hands
of the weavers of exceptional commands;
to resist the metrics of the ancient engineers
disrobe the manners of the righteous brers
and the offices of prelates left behind.
Then the claims of will can be detected,
determined and excised, evading by deception
civil arts: the commonness of politics,
the economic breeds, the farmer’s familial
seasons of beet. If successful, please remain
alien to norms. Give up salt and sugar
and the peppered meat. Shun the finely offered
but thrice perfidious treats. Begin without,
or within, it matters not to execution,
yet live with no recourse to expectation,
renouncing all enticement, everything that’s due;
all this to be a hunger, unnavigable and brined:
directions without appetite, a joy abandoned
to a birthless lore — live, so as to never stand
with either god, not the shining one aloft
or the dark other below, and thereby be witness
to the incalculable extinction of love:
step down, idol, from your pedestal, and walk.
It is beyond order and chaos you must go.