I Might As Well-

Find myself fascinating no matter how incongruous.

Otherwise

Otherwise, I am good;
Otherwise, I'm fantastic
and all the expletives-
that entail.
Other wise...I've atoned,
for my futility;
The disgrace of diffidence;
Otherwise, I'm on auto-pilot,
Bypassing yet another scrape-
In-the-knee; fork on the road.
Milestone.
Otherwise, I'm a cynical avalanche
Spiralling apathetic recoil.
Otherwise, this is all a fallacy.
Dervish spun.

Otherwise, there was no
Blue linoleum floor,
The apocryphal ants-
trail;
Otherwise, I've purged
you,
Perhaps through mock-vomits,
Call it emotional regurgitation.
Otherwise, it would've been done,
Impulsively.
Otherwise, I welcome
Miscellany, inconsequential
derivatives, et al.
Otherwise, I brown-bag
decayed minutiae;
Otherwise, you would
Be dragged around,
Unfathomable, candid
Yes, you. Ophidian-
Otherwise.

(25th September 2004)

Alas!

I have succumbed; been blog flogged; and overdone the Latin.