Poem for 4/13 Workshop (Hannah)

The Process of Decay

The process of decay must mirror

some behavior of the universe,

sidewalk chalk and dead snakes,

left in muggy air to get bloated and

gradually to decrease in amplitude
deteriorate or become impaired

have patterns reflected in other
processes. So does decay have

certain choice, then skip to a kitchen

just to reach for the bucket on top

of a fridge with no power: the pipes

have no water: thus a bucket

of fluid on an empty utility

the building to be destructed

first the power and water were

disconnected to prevent explosions

one could hypothetically meander

pondering “what sort would leave a

building so stable alone and un-purposed?”

choose to stay, not noticing the windows

had been pried off and trucked away.

then the siding stripped (maybe this is not

how to deconstruct a building)

to lose its characteristic quality,

strength, or excellence; do the ghosts of
snowpeople that shrunk to muddy shadows

haunt us? to be in a failing condition.
reflections of trees in puddles that evaporate.

A grandfather who was so magnetic his
watches lost their delicate accuracy.

The blackboards are only really clean for
the first few moments of a lecture, dead

sea creatures layering to be smeared
with eraser.  When a banana decays, the

most fragile or maybe vulnerable portions
get weathered away first, how a skeleton

is what we dig out of mass graves and

not just empty skin with all the insides

disappeared and recycled to become

matter in a wooden chair from IKEA

that took all day to assemble because
operating on only pictorial instructions

may leave you with too many screws

or an extra plank. Even this process

puts things together in an order that leads

to pieces made of pieces, like a skull

of a tyrannosaurus has several bones,

connecting to several in the neck,

wearing feathers and probably a great

deal more silly than given credit for by

action figures.  falling off from a prosperous
or thriving condition; progressive decline;

there is an order, a next

most reasonable choice to (de)construct

this building or banana: the living

of living may take another away

and it usually saves to buy in bulk.

So, after windows (I hope they are

taken to be reused and not shattered)

the condition of one who has thus fallen off

or declined. recycling costs energy
reusing costs a different energy,

but octopi living in less murky waters
thank the woman who drives the fronthoe

Not-A-Bulldozer for saving the windows

All the blackboards could be saved, if

anyone has use of them. what about the murals

that probably were not on the walls when you

consider the purpose of this building. Yet

the gradual decrease in the radioactivity

spontaneous transformation of a single atomic
nucleus/elementary particle into one or more

different nuclei/particles. I would like to think
that all buildings  get murals worthy of excising

a wall to be reinstalled. “So much depends upon”
whether they wanted to reuse the handles

from all the doors, and the hinges, light

switches. Decaying bananas become

seeds eventually, but maybe not banana seeds. I worry about the crushed frames.