T
he door:
they done changed things around.
Everything changing
all the time;
even the air you breathing
change:
you got monoxide,
hydrogen–
changing all the time;
skin changing . . .
different molecules and
everything.
The door;
just saying things change.
As posited:
the air and everything;
but now
put two propositions
on the same track;
run them together . . .
and because they crash
call it the same train.
From the air
to the skin
to the door
and now trains—
to many goddamn books.
*Versification: a few lines from
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
By August Wilson
*[ WSB ].