10-11 Did

Timothy David
couldn't, didn't,
though he tried,
Timothy David,
watched his empire,
crumble, mumble, and die,
cursing screws, kings,
princes, washers, and
cheshire,

smiling lost things,
Timothy David built

wooden-metal cross-beams,
crucifying his princess,

and her steadfast pea,
laughing at clocks, ticking-tocking, rocking
maddening, maniacal, midnights ,
Timothy David,
stroking his ego,
hammered his lady, crazy,
stoking his pyre, higher,
taller, higher, brighter, till
Timothy David,
did.