triumphs

You can't do it like we both
loved last time 
You've got to improve 
on the perfect score. 
You've got to innovate 
the recipe. You've got to go 
one ingredient more. 

It's triumph we crave, not mastery.
Finding new ways to not fuck up.
For you, perfection could not be enough, 
unless you had tried every trick in the world,
to return to the thing you long since knew 
and say yeah, that'll do. Oh hey, that's
the stuff.