First Self

"Their looks tell the whole story,"
He told the Associated Press.
"You can't describe looks on people

That are lost. They look totally
Lost--shocked and lost."  A lamentable
Feature of institutional culture

Is that cooperation entails murder
Of one kind or another, as you may
Recall reading here before.

Sleep is the personification
Of rest but it is no second
Self, no self at all. Seneca,

Scoundrel, knew best that holiest
Loyalty is the mother of death,
And he practiced daily, but he lost.