4952. ONE PRESENTATION

ONE PRESENTATION

So how do you say it 

how do you take it how do you 

bring it forth ? do I talk too much do 

I overdo it and do I just go on without 

knowledge of limits or with no finesse 

of endings and stops ? I cannot say 

as for myself it’s all of one presentation : 

carpenters on the rooftop plying their

trade and generals in the cornfield 

recreating the very lines of battle none 

of them need to stop and figure their

limits or measure their stops and any 

reflected glory they bask in is worn like 

folded garments of royal cloth - without 

any ado they’ve already got it made and 

here I stand : lonely on 10th Street broken 

on 17th and forgotten for sure by 49th and 

all this without a doubt in a boy too old for

the boyhood due and a man too withered 

for youth : there’s no declension to make 

this language right it’s all sadness 

and sorrow and doubt.