6
PERSISTENCE OF VOWS
by Salvatore Difalco
Contraindicated:
reanimating
the corpse when
it’s already
putrefying.
Not an either/or
like loving
or not loving
somebody you
only like.
Before this,
happiness, not bliss—
that blind alley,
with its thugs and
one-legged dogs.
Maybe better,
maybe not, than all
that would follow;
only time will tell
how far we have fallen.