Gladly, You Can’t Undo It

Non-alert, non-dozing, non-choring,
Non-entertaining, non-composing,
The innocent postcranial corpse

Sprawled out breathing, burbling, and pulsing,
The skull non-conversing except in
Itself, eyes and ears barely noting

Anything, horizontal sofa
Existence, the lowest resistance
To authority, to one-party

States, dictators, and village elders,
Parents, pastors, and grief counselors,
Peers, colleagues, monks, offspring, and doctors—

You can’t comprehend you can do it
Until you get the chance, to not do.
Non-doing it, you just barely can.