You with your toes in old water
don't look at me that way
Conscripted by circumstance
I've renounced the material world
Leaping into asceticism
headlong into a cooler pond
Without regard to income
what's not to like
About self-preservation
through creative effort
Impressing the dead
and the yet-to-be-born
With a hint of what it was like
once upon a time
in the temperate zone ?
