Exchange

M – C – M'

as if that's all there is

your equivalences

are pale cold death

there are other ways to live

where the sun shines, and it is warm

and this warm is not the same as that warm

and this day is not the same as that day

and shadows fade instead of reduplicate

  forever in a coal gray dawn

  of greed and fear

you count this

as if it is real

It is not.