Year
In Streaming
summering
down
the
child and siren align
hands
incomplete
as
dancers waxing
in
a rainbow moonstone
“can
you stop suffering
for, like, a minute?”
do
you mean could
burn
through
wave
by wave
at
what difference?
in
a spiral, crocodile
&
roses aaaaallll day
teach
myself (again)
to
rest is not to squander
lighten as
the sun hits
off
the cymbal nn-tsk
back
in the day
when we
were planets
to
a plum, swan-swank
gonging in
between
napkinful
of sour patch kids
Seven
gather in the conference room to discuss the market readiness report, so the
office is mostly empty. Liv researches bathing suits that may look good on her.
George is standing at his desk looking at his phone with the flat tone of a COO
gone soft on matrices. Peterson returns to his desk with a third cup of coffee
and a napkinful of sour patch kids, resumes listening to Dick Gallup reading
poems from the evening of June 21, 1978. The crowd claps earnest and
appreciative after most of them, while Dick turns a page, takes a breath -
sometimes through his nose, sometimes through his mouth, some both - and then
he begins again. Before “Virtue”: I seem to be missing something he says and
lights another cigarette. In “Philosophy Take a Walk” Dick reads, stress is
mostly bullshit. What will become of Dowling Hall, the market and its
readiness? What virtue hath a man who hath not the command of his own
intention? The year is 2025, and, to be sure, there is still much work to be
done…