More Poetry Outtakes

Forgive Them

Just as I'm stepping into the shower,
scenes from old home movies
flush me down the drain.

Forgive them
for they knew not what they did.

Do it without emotion--
if necessary--
do it in slow motion.

Do you understand what it means
to be a polished stone, or a purified ingot

of mirror metal?
To be clean?
We have dishonored logic.