Bicentennial by Dan Chiasson

The first section dissect what is going on the speaker's mind. There many thoughts that are unorganized and he needs a company to clear them out. Then in the second stanza, he stated " I am afraid, will move my mind one inch", from my perspective, I think he is afraid of honesty, like telling the truth will leave him a negative impact. In third stanza, he created a mess of his thoughts, then he retrace it.