the agonist

i'll work for you
and sheathe the blade
shorten gaps
'tween felt and said

i'll prove this world is true
because you need it to

and in your wild
i'll clear the space
for you to write
and to erase

i'll make it up for you
to fashion all anew...

...ack. okay, i give up. i was trying to write something using the image of agonists. an agonist (in muscle terms) is a muscle that contracts; as it does so, its counter necessarily relaxes. for example, when the biceps contract, the tricepts must relax. i wanted to capture this reciprocal relationship in some silly poem, but it didn't quite work out...