Daniel S. Deboer<p>whose will this year be?<br>not mine:—I am beyond sick of revolution</p><p>inheritors gather<br>I relinquish and only glean</p><p>I will trim sails and polish<br>what fixtures remain</p><p>you shape it<br>I am wrinkled and bowlegged and unable</p><p>rat on a wheel<br>I cease imagining offramps</p><p>I will fashion torches<br>I will manufacture pitchforks</p><p>but you must carry them—and me—<br>into battle</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/rip2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rip2023</span></a></p>