“watch out for power,
for it's avalanche can bury you,
snow, snow, snow, smothering your mountain.
watch out for hate,
it can open its mouth and you'll fling yourself out
to eat off your leg, an instant leper.
watch out for friends,
because when you betray them,
as you will,
they will bury their heads in the toilet
and flush themselves away.
watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.
watch out for games, the actor’s part,
the speech planned, known, given,
for they will give you away
and you will stand like a naked little boy,
pissing on your own child-bed.
watch out