As though we'd read the whole of Valery? <br />Imagining Baudelaire? Montparnasse? Vass? <br />Watching the wind run, not unkindly, the lemon grass through, <br />The eulogy politely borne, if not too long, <br />A bid to live-memento mori, honey- <br />Ah, you too? <br />Observe a silent moment for the dead <br />Give what we can give and hustle on <br />Back to the car <br />Like the good Americans we are? <br />Shall the sun not cover its face and wheel, fiery, away <br />Shall the sound not jar us to the bone? <br />The rain of loam, <br />Hiss, crunch...thanks, a bunch of violets at the head. <br />Shall we not do as so few and so many have done? <br />Noses rubbed in the gist of nothingness? <br />Sing a hymn? Boo-hoo. <br />Sorry, babe, I have another trust. Do you?<br /><br />Morgan Michaels<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-ii-5/
