A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS

Revolution makes time move
faster than any measure of skill.
We will prove

this with truth
tied as bundles of unmarked bills.
Revolt makes time move

arms full of
leather satchels full
of proof

and however we’ve
begun to feel,
this revolt has made time move

past ourselves
into barrels of jet fuel
soon lit to prove

that regret, and our relationship
to the revolution make time move.
I am near you. I am well.
This is proof enough.