A Minute's Trick

And in a minute

our world crumbles,

in a minute

comes up a wall

because he has

understood it all-

the night often mumbles

things to him.

So maybe there's

something in it,

in his claims, tall.

And in a minute

he decides, but fumbles,

in a minute

he ends the call

because he has

understood it all-

the jokes, the jumbles,

night's whim.

There must be

something in it,

sudden though, the fall.

In a minute

we have not a minute.

In a minute-

'that is all'.

The trick,

and I mean it,

is then to

die in a minute.