Archery Slam

Set your stance,
know what your moral is,
and go.

Stay linear.  
Stay arrow-
tuned into target.
Announce
your target.  Announce that you’re
setting the arrow to string.
Announce that the string is
made just for this and any music made
by the humming string
is incidental to the shot on target.
Tell the gallery that the bow is tool only
and its arch is not beautiful on its own.

Fire directly on the target, flat trajectory,
do not raise the point higher than is necessary
to strike the bull’s eye.  
Do not cry 
for the bull, suddenly blinded  — note only 
that the target’s been hit.  Make this 
whole theater last a set while —
sit back, wait for the scores,

and while you’re waiting marvel
at the ones who hit the target
by pointing the arrow left, right,
up, or down true vertical, letting it fly and then
watching as the music of the bow and string
sing the point curving home
to incidentally return sight
to the wounded bull.

Say,
I could never do that.

Say, 
I am doing that already.

Say,
I want to learn that music.