III. ADVANCE PROXY
           

           

            It will not come
              but one must, a figure
           
              in the very word
          innermost, which is reproducible
                time, or light
               or the light. Then
                nebulae pulses
          that were and will be and no longer be
          unseen in this world—
              using needles
              and small knives
              and force of white knuckles
               
          until it took on a life
          of its own, and the wall
          of the egg opened
          and out came the figure
          sentient, responding to light,
          but not quite ready for solid food.
          And when I woke up, remembered
          there was something I had to do,

          being become conscious
          of its automatic functions
          and so capable of death
          by spiteful lapsing
          of the will to live
           

            whose musical hum
            attempts to maintain the proper
            cortical tone

            whose reproducible scratchings
            attempt to maintain
            the significant series
             

          and imagine he is
          calling to that which recedes
          at a rate equal to the death of the voice,

          or decrease with each passing day
          collapsed and exhausted
          and so folding in on

          frozen bit, trapped in the negative.
          Yet these are
          “Yet these the subjective

          and emotional aspects of life”
          whose event A might be
          in event B’s future, and now
          collapsed
          and exhausted, folding in

          on anything, even half
          if you, friend

          but the ways must

          weaken you and

                      listen
          even half
                  was with you
                         and
          I whose
           
              hand, not
          keep
            not
          cry
                not
          late
                  not
          yet.
           

          IV. REVERSE PROXY