Hope you are not finished yet, Ken. Sleep should have the quality of slate I think. Grey and flat and morning clean. Doesn't happen enough however.
Bill
On Wed, May 1st, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Or not so…
>
> Invites me to wish you a way out…
>
> (perhaps that trip to the west coast?)
>
> Doug
> On 2013-04-30, at 2:11 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > WHAT ENDS ME
> >
> > Trivial pursuits.
> > Telephones and lack of same.
> > Sleep that comes only unbidden
> > but, when it comes, does not refresh,
> > wakes me only to yesterday's slate skies
> > and the breakfast buffet of fears.
> >
> > Not even new fears but the same,
> > in squealing cycles:
> > the question of how to make it
> > from seven AM until it's time
> > to go, perhaps, to sleep.
> >
> > Welcome to the screen door on a windy night
> > that slams against the house at 3 AM
> > chipping paint
> > pounding wood to pulp
> > teasing me with clocklike rhythm,
> > a water torture that cannot cease
> > will not relent,
> > victim and victimizer locked
> > in an embrace neither can break.
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Something else is out there
> godamnit
>
> And I want to hear it
>
> C.D.Wright
>
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