Slow

The speaker compares regret after a fast event with slowing down enough to prevent it from happening.

The speaker pairs looking around and sighing with the choice between being sorry and being slow. The wasp image suggests motion but does not identify a particular incident.

'Slow' says 'We need sighs to get to places' and 'Youuwould rather be sorry than slow', then 'You would watch it happen / and call it fast', ending 'Rather than slow so / it never happens at all'.

The poem argues for patience, accusing the listener of choosing speed and regret. The run-together 'Youuwould' is kept as typed; it may be a doubled letter over a word space, and the line's sense is the same either way.