Some I have abandoned,
who stand spinning within themselves;
who create the vortex that pulls downward;
those who never ask,
locked inside their situations
with their microscopically gigantic problems,
which they desperately cling to

To abandon such people
in an evaluative airing-out,
is a process of purification,
a shaking-off,
a clearing of the temple

– the love of life itself –

...and it was not easy to abandon, reject,
for I had placed my bets on them,
and guessed wrong