Dreams

Dreams

The dreams where I live in other people's 

               homes with two cockatoo

     in the barn: man comes to fix tv:

booth with atm and I forget my pin:

people come home, and man tries to hit

me: they have a baby on the floor:

     I have been watching Returned

          both in French and in English:

領袖 has eliminated any

and all distractions: supposed to be

                    a good thing:

when I see into the past I am a resident

of only towns: uprooted, mobile,

     I die without offspring and end

in churchyard: I encompass graves:

looking back like the Angel of History,

I see wreckage where I imagine 

     others might see heritage and look 

          forward to leaving a legacy:

     to look at youth but not be jealous,

but to love them, to want to join them

          because that is the best of life,

     to desire again the beauty of what

can be learned because nothing is

yet certain because now you know nothing

will be certain: nothing, even not nothing:

for youth: no death: no end: pull

into the NoTeL in Saint Clair

before I run off the road,

drunk, asleep.

[lyric]