It is important to stay sweet and loving

Tenderness and Rot
Kay Ryan

Tenderness and rot 
share a border. 

And rot is an 
aggressive neighbor 
whose iridescence 
keeps creeping over. 

No lessons 
can be drawn 
from this however. 

One is not 
two countries. 
One is not meat 
corrupting. 

It is important 
to stay sweet 
and loving.

From here.