Saturday, April 5, 2008

More Poems on Death of Old People

Underneath

I see a man walking west And I know where he goes

I have dreamt his future steps in a thousand grains of sand, of glass

overflowing the cracked timepiece of death, a double-edged sandcloaked number

that counts them down a piece at a time like some sinister Bingo machine

I see for last by first

the Placental Earth

welcomes his body back

Loam hugs his shoulders and sinks him in his graveclothes

his lips frozen in a photographic time, The expression of an Ambulance

The driver stroked some incidental strings on an old Folk- guitar

the patient in the back died of the remnants of a heart attack Time of Death: Seven Am on a Monday

his body says,

There is too much Morphine

in me, I give up

a body too full of Minty-morphine gives into a rain of crystal hands

Underneath the scalp, ungluing thoughts wallpapered everywhere

A Thousand-Lives Exit a clean room, this tenant is moving away (his apartment is all empty only wires)

A light shatters out of a lighthouse, the crashing Bulb

explodes to simple

opaque glass

dashed upon the rocks

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