The Probabilist
Maybe I'm tergiversating about it: do
I want to lie there, waxy, mute,
and hear neither weeping nor laughter?
Maybe? The Current Subject
has no brother or sister of the full
or half blood. I'm not sure
it will arrive at that, but if it does
most likely afterward there could be
a casserole at Aunt Mina's.
Aunt Lily could be there with her famous kugel!
All of my dead might be there.
Mother? Father? The Current Subject
has no brother or sister of the full or half blood.
I guess it could possibly
maybe come to that.
Probably I should just stand here and take it
like a man, probably.
---Thomas Lux
---found in Child Made of Sand (2012)