The Sun Is an Orange Navel at Dusk

You could loosen up a little. You could
Use a little loosening up. So you

Button up tighter, up to the collar.
All your life you’ve saved all your defiance

To have handy in case of good advice,
Which is why all your life now will be short

Or shorter than it had to be, longer
Than you counted on in your defiance.

You think this, and you think you know yourself.
You could stand to know yourself a bit less.

Knowing oneself is always delusion
And trying is a selfish waste of time.

Forget you! It’s going to be dark soon,
Dark you’ll drive through, nothing to do with you.