His Algebraic Carnage

“Sometimes a scene will be even redder if we use no pencil at all.”

Change mostly erases work,

But change can befriend 

A lucky body of work,

Even if change never helps

The work of a body long.

Change is the Prime Narrator,

The sculptor of addition

By subtraction, the reason

Good narrators look away

To suggest the worst,

Leaving imagination,

Not just to provide the rest,

But to gasp in blank terror

At worst worse than it can guess.