Sunday, April 19, 2020

Unasked

how many answers does it take
to ask the right question?

one sneeze, delivered just right,
can break the wine glasses in a restaurant
  
if you hold up two fingers and squint between them
you still won’t see me after I’ve gone

the sum of the distances between three points
equals a triangulation of perspectives
  
the average of four tone-deaf tenors
can't be used to tune a piano

five times the capital of the Ottoman Empire
may or may not rhyme with Constantinople
  
six is the whole of my favorite number
for reasons known only to my fourth grade self

so many answers linger in the air
to questions left unasked
  
perhaps it’s best that way

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