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A poem I keep forgetting to write Is about the stars, How I see them in their order Even without the chair and bear and the sisters, In their astronomic presence of great space, And how beyond and behind my eyes they are moving, Exploding to spirals under extremest pressure. Having not mathematics, my head Bursts with anguish of not understanding. The poem I forget to write is bursting fragments Of a tortured victim, far from me In his galaxy of minds bent upon him, In the oblivion of his headline status Crumpled and exploding as incomparable As a star, yet present in its light. I forget to write.