GOING AWAY OR COMING HOME

GOING AWAY OR COMING HOME

From some sucked cocoon in a bitter cellar
Comes that most wished to be done with and over:
Going away or coming home.

On the last broken bus ride across a horizon
Brimming fiery with shimmering poison
Came that most wished to be done with and over,
Going away or coming.

Asked of a buck-toothed cashier
Brimming fiery with shimmering poison
Is the petty diplomat fallen?

Asked of a buck-toothed cashier,
Who, in fear of reprisal, shrugs dumbly in answer.

The petty diplomat is fallen,
Is departed, and shall never again
Be going away or coming home,s

Who, in fear of reprisal, shrugged dumbly in answer.
The weary question of his flat feet: Are
We going away or coming home?