Unfinishing touches
appeal to those who love
saving flawed greenware from firing.
Prototypes and blueprints
if stopped in time will not
crash or burn –
only the promising
break. To be immune
to ruin, never be complete –
only the groundbreaking
ages to cliche –
only the fulfilled
spring leaks.
How privileged, then, to be
invisibly peripheral –
the forgotten backup plan
never stooping to auxiliary
or, even less than ornamental,
necessary.