House of Fact, House of Ruin

You’ve got to put your pants on in the house of fact.

And in the house of fact, when you take off your shirt,

you can hear your shirt cry out, Facts are the floor, facts are how you make the right side talk to the left.

I’m washing my naked belly clean, and doing it with dignity.

I’m turning around, trying to see the filthiness that keeps making me filthy.

—from “House of Fact, ...