This other is also true:
the swigging hyperactive man
has seen signs of democracy
where he’s been coddled home after a binge
so when day cracks down
he invokes human speech to say
the police are kind and reasonable
\because they are my neighbors while
citizens who should know better are
tampering with a delicate
and eloquent civilization.

My friend rises on a paperweight
that falls over when the wind says so.
When it crumbles he arises as he was.