5961. IKKYU

IKKYU

1. Having no destination, I am never lost : 

turn that flop at the orange corner, peel

the stage by the overpass ramp. 

2. What good stories deal with is the

horror and incomprehensibility of time,

the dark encroachment of old catastrophes;

which may have been said by Wallace Stevens.

3. All excellent art has its its mystery, its

spiritual rhythm. 'Together they enter

the shining rooms.'

4. Real avant-garde writing today would frame

and reflect our misuse of our world, our destruction

of its beauties and wonders. We are all, instead,  

just messing with ourselves, cherishing ourselves.

We love and spawn, but always there is this ghastly

wanting. Always the need.

5. Yes, yes, I like all of that. Yes, I like all

of this very much.