80spoems/rational

RATIONAL

I pretend to be rational,
act like I know how to do it.
But it’s such a secondary process
we could call it tertiary.
If we wanted to bother,
if doing so wasn’t counter to
my recent conclusion that tertiary
is a word only to be used
in reference to color.
I force myself through this maze
cause they have convinced me it is
the path to right living:
analyzed to death,
footnoted and substantiated right
off the planet, totally away
from home.