you, coke can 
      
drained, bent, recalcitrant 
      
nude on a stainless 
      
plinth 
      
better you were 
      
crushed 
      
on bitumen 
      
by a swift passage 
      
of thoughts 
      
or idealised 
      
in someone else's 
      
spectrum 
      
than eroded 
      
in this 
      
speech