Poem: September 27, 2019

Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily

Solipsism- noun- the view or theory that 
the self is all that can be known to exist.

I think a solipsist
must, by definition,
also be an optimist

since every good thing
would be your gift
to yourself, evidence,

a manifestation of the
good inside you, what
you love about yourself-

a child laughs, you
did that, the sun rises
and is orange and glows

because you glow,
the magnificence of sex
is your magnificence-

and every bad thing
becomes a statement
of faith, since you

could only make what
you could overcome,
what you could have

undone. Every bad thing
becomes a puzzle, a
type of exercise, a way

to know yourself, and
even death cannot be if
you are a solipsist, since

death is other, and even
in the chaos and the
darkness of sleep, you

continue on, finding
strange ways backward
and forward, passing more

easily through yourself,
so if anything, death
becomes an open door.