De beneficis


Forget what you know
you think you know
And what you know you know
or at least think

be nothing
which wants

sit down beside me,
see nothing
of the rolling hill or the tree here
silent over the warm evening

let your mouth release you
i am on guard
and so is our tree

exhale your remembrance
there is no country

what you have built is yours to keep
or yours to give