nothing is ever over nothing is ever even begun the foundation has not been laid how can we hope to put in the plumbing the bed is unmade not even made the wood has not been cleft from the tree the seed has not been cast out of water and growth and sun which itself has not started shining the cock has never stopped crowing because he never started peter betrays us again and again with silence christ wakes up at night choking from a bad dream wrists aching from a dreamt torturous pain