V/to/Infinitive.

   to do one's duty (on the fly)
   ....lunch (on the run)
   ....drugs (on the sly)
   ....sex (hands up)
   ....war (hands down)
   to do the do-do (for the dodo)

   to trim the pain = to construct pauses
   to sow periods = to reap commas

   to be here

   =    to be in-between not being

   to be there

   to speak of mobile evidence
   =
   to have to mobilize "so therefore"
   =
   to have an entry strategy
   =    to know not to knock
        where there is no door

   to have an exit strategy
   =    to know where to knock
        when there are no doors left

   to tell the whole truth
        (of yesterday)

   to slant the untruth
        (of today)

   to be victorious....
        oh, victorious

   =
   to abandon visionless courses
        or courseless revisions

"Eternity on Hold," Mario Susko's fourth book of poems in English, has recently been published by Turtle Point Press. Susko is a survivor of the Bosnian War. He has translated numerous books into Croatian.