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This closing fragment moves through losing a spear, losing access to the mother, losing eyes, keeping the mind, and ending on `vituperatively`.

Restoring the spear line makes the fragment feel more bodily and martial before it turns toward mother, sight, and mental survival. The last word keeps the page accusatory and alive even after successive losses.

The book's closing fragment, built as a conditional ladder of loss: 'if I lose my spear, I / can't feel the mother / any more,' then 'if I lose all my eyes / I still keep my mind.' It ends on the single-word stanza 'vituperatively,' an abrasive last note that keeps the mind defiant and accusatory even after the loss of weapon, mother, and sight - the sequence's final, bitter posture.