Don't Boil (version Two)

Grip at an object with your eye
Try to bring it into your mind
Then fail to act
Maintaining your absence from the world

Choose your lessons from life
Simmer but don't boil
Observe a procession of documented hardship
Then don't look

Watch a hand placed on a load
Watch the load swell to constraint
Make a scruffy handbook
Then watch a sheet lie empty as it should

Grip at an object with your eye
Try to bring it into your mind
Then fail to act
Maintaining your absence from the world