coffee beans taste like regret:
dry and grainy and used-up.
i will never grow a beard
or be walt whitman.
she will not love me again.
this fact is a torn sheet of paper.
regret is part of the universe
and therefore good and beautiful.
everything that is possible
is good and beautiful.
doing a headstand in the shower, for example,
is good and beautiful.
in a museum, anything
is good and beautiful.
pica**o's 'guernica'
is good and beautiful.
i wonder if the paint feels
that it is good and beautiful,
whether the horse knows
that it too is good and beautiful.
every feeling
is good and beautiful.
i do not feel
good and beautiful,
though i know
that i am.