RHEUMS OVER "STAINED" MEMORIES

Stained yellow pages, scattered ink droplets :
Black's merged into the chrome,
I wish : Not the fragmented parchments
I wish : Not the rheums I shed
I wish : Not the requitals of the past . . . .

The buff mask, that veils the stained thought;
The memoirs that conjure without my sanction,
Memories : that I should have never bought
Rheums : that I cannot shed
Memories : that i will have to die with . . . .