From the end of the earth, the song is Grind Me Into Dust.

The Old Man at the Wheel

Measured against the immeasurable

universe, no word you have spoken

brought light. Brought

light to what, as a child, you thought

too dark to be survived. By exorcism

you survived. By submission, then making.

You let all the parts of that thing you would

cut out of you enter your poem because

enacting there all its parts allowed you

the illusion you could cut it from your soul.

Dilemmas of choice given what cannot

change alone roused you to words.

As you grip the things that were young when 

you were young, they crumble in your hand.

Now you must drive west, which in November

means driving directly into the sun.

Frank Bidart