We Can't Help Ourselves Poem by Seamus O' Brian

Tangential is a poet's word
to be brandished in unexpected
circumstances such as moonscapes
tangential to the bellicosity of my
gamekeeper's amalgamated heart.
The linguistic twerking of poets
Lathered in the sweat of stretching
meaning across unrequited canyons
eviscerated of understanding
is tangential yet ob-LIG'-atory
to the languid luminosity,
torqued empty socket
of an unsolilloquied reader.

Forgive us, readers.

We are tangential at
best.