you’re looking at it as if it means anything other than turn it off

God give me the courage
to understand the
four short line stanza
and write a pleasing one for you.

Experience is mostly not for me
So I said the same thing twice.
What has the four short line stanza
done to me? Tell about it.

Nothing to read out of chapter 9.
Lonely amputee of love.
Unlike or without as good as
second language of love.

We were here on business,
in the matter of being punished.
America doesn’t try to pretend
an ethical life in poetry,

You shouldn’t either.