.

once while yet living

on longing and clinging

each shape of a name

yielding fortune or fame

.

.
socially quick

as to flows of mating

reflecting proper dogmas

in hand-me-down meaning
.

.

useful pretensions

class and of scorn

.

.

in once-again fluids

from whence too

reborn

.

.

were twins to

dance on a shiny floor

.

.

or sharp-minds' etude

metaphor

.

.

bent closer to deaths than infancies

two where tables sit

.

.

of lights as yet unfully condensed
studiously at peace
not yet knowing

.

.
pretending to be
someone one's not

.

 .

to attain the reward
for those by whom one's been
bought

.