It Can’t Be Helped

“All I—all I—all I—
All I have in life is my new appetite for failure”
—Kendrick Lamar, ‘Swimming Pools (Drank)’

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

I just sit in my hole and laugh.
O don’t I laugh—yes! I just
Sit in my hole and laugh. So

Aren’t you daft, while I
Just sit in my hole and laugh. But

Are you really going to do that?
Not me—I’ll just sit low
And laugh. Try that? Or that? You are

Mad. Leave my hole? For that? That is…
That is mad! Because look at you

Doing that. Look at you
Trying that! It looks bad. You look bad.
You keep trying? Repeating

That? That’s daft. Aren’t you daft! And me?
Leave my hole? To not

Laugh? To try
That? You know you must be
Having a laugh.