MUSK

Story permeates our beings,

our very bodies.

In other words: how we

hold and carry ourselves

in the world

is no small matter.

What we tell ourselves

about ourselves

is an attitude, an air  

we wear like a musk.

It is in us, on us, and all around us.

It perfumes everything and everyone

we come close to.

It is how we attract what we attract

and repel what we repel.

If we remain suffused

in our state of nonchalance

we might as well go about our business

like skunks in the night,

scavenging for our next meager meal,

while the dark keeps getting darker.