Elegy on Toy Piano
You don't need a pony
to connect you to the unseeable
or an airplane to connect you to the sky. . . .
You don't need a pony
to connect you to the unseeable
or an airplane to connect you to the sky. . . .
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. . . .
My friends,
As it has been proven in the laboratory,
An empty pair of dance shoes . . .
This is not fantasy, this is our life.
We are the characters
who have invaded the moon, . . .
An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night. . . .
“We're going,” they said, “to the end of the world.”
So they stopped the car where the river curled,
And we scrambled down beneath the bridge . . .
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; . . .
Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse
between one rough dream and another, I seemed,
still awake, to be stranded on a stony path, . . .
I am wearing dark glasses inside the house
To match my dark mood.
. . .
If we could get the hang of it entirely
It would take too long;
All we know is the splash of words in passing . . .