206.
If a thing can be itself and still go
on
that is the raw meat in the rhapsode’s
song
people all over pretending to be me
clear as Chesterton in the gloaming
of the evening
would I were my father’s favorite
word
not twitch so while I’m saying so
I can hardly read the word I write
why I need you
there are spirits here antagonists of
air
is it prayer that sifts all round us
and we breathe in
what one word be scents the garden of
Adonis
sacrifice means tabu only gods can
have it
what would the world be like if we
were in it.
207.
Each one a trick question do you
smoke
no I only quote
comparisons are bad for the
environment
don’t sit next to me while you’re
quoting
I never want to hear what wise men
said
do you think I want to walk out in
someone else’s clothes
don’t make such a fuss just forget
about it
forgetting is the hardest thing of
all
that’s why you fled your island isn’t
it
that’s why you sailed up the dark
river where not even the trees knew you
that’s why you write down what other
people say
you make them up to talk to you so
somebody remembers.
