I can't

come crashing down

like Cendrars

Like Celine

Unlike Giono

Or Calvino's Difficult Loves

or Path To The Nest Of Spiders

Try to Rise Son antisemitic

Hem

I can come crashing down 

like Bowles 

like Junky

like Thesiger in

the Rub Al Kahli or Iraq swamps

Or Smiley

riding donkeys 

Thru miles and miles and miles

in Afghanistan