Wednesday, March 18, 2009

278. THE GUEST LIST

THE GUEST LIST
Let us try for Tristan Tzara
and Emmy Hennings too.
Let us try for the Baroness
Von Henkle and the Molten
of Gregg. Let us re-name even
the Markovsky Bridge : something
regal - no? - like 'Fiddler's Diamond
Transverse' or even 'New Rimrock Trestle'.
Like all the rest of our local rabble,
we can congregate there. We can walk
then through the crowd and proudly carry
our placards aloft : 'I Am Certain It Will Be You!',
'This Is A Little Mill Town Alone!'.
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Whitbread can wager his silver coins.
Hardford will watch from his library window.
It will all be so simple - as to be - just as well
so absurd.
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And then, in moonlight, the speeding
cars can thin the crowd and we,
thereby, will learn from our
mistakes.

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