Thursday, March 07, 2013

mdcccliii

I’m a big boyfriend, holding
my insides.  I have to say
something, I suppose,
and it’s neither in my
nature nor healthy.
Tim says we should
do more than wonder
about science.  Only he
really says silence.  And
probably that’s alarming.
Like a clock or a ghost.  So
we start to channel.

       and you believed
                   —Alice Notley

This is only card number two
and we all have to deal with it.
Or not deal with it
(depending).
We hunker down
to work as hard as we can
on the third card: The Vintage’s
Vantage.  And it’s a repeat card. 
There should be four cards total
when you get a repeat.

Somehow the mood swells
as we get into it—as the
fourth card readies itself.